J.G. Ballard quote: "The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it."

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks w...
J.G. BALLARD

Remember, David, the middle class have to be kept under control. They understand that, and police th...
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She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only ap...
J.G. BALLARD

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
J.G. BALLARD

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
J.G. BALLARD

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to ho...
J.G. BALLARD

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the to...
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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. J.G. BALLARD

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful in...
J.G. BALLARD

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...
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First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...
J.G. BALLARD

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BALLARD

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in the...
J.G. BALLARD

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in a...
J.G. BALLARD

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or event...
J.G. BALLARD

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...
J.G. BALLARD

People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their...
J.G. BALLARD

I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower
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The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales execut...
J.G. BALLARD

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. BALLARD

The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary ass...
J.G. BALLARD

Sooner or later, all games become serious.
J.G. BALLARD

Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...
J.G. BALLARD

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free o...
J.G. BALLARD

To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father woul...
J.G. BALLARD

No American films?’

‘I don’t like comic strips.’

‘Film noir?’
J.G. BALLARD

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriage...
J.G. BALLARD

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?
J.G. BALLARD

Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you rei...
J.G. BALLARD

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.
J.G. BALLARD

Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nucl...
J.G. BALLARD

Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.
J.G. BALLARD

Either the world is at fault, or we’re looking for meaning in the wrong places.
J.G. BALLARD

The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who ...
J.G. BALLARD

Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance off...
J.G. BALLARD

You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every f...
J.G. BALLARD

From sandwich to summer school, they were the symbols of subservience and the enemies of freedom.
J.G. BALLARD

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.
J.G. BALLARD

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea th...
J.G. BALLARD

When you were twenty, you accepted yourself, flaws and all. Then disenchantment set in. By the time ...
J.G. BALLARD

When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.
J.G. BALLARD

Remember, the police are neutral - they hate everybody.
J.G. BALLARD

But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win.
J.G. BALLARD

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by th...
J.G. BALLARD

Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit th...
J.G. BALLARD

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD

But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dis...
J.G. BALLARD

Beyond our physical touch, the breasts of these screen actresses incite our imaginations to explore ...
J.G. BALLARD

The sex act is emotionally the richest and the most imaginatively charged event in our lives, compar...
J.G. BALLARD

The post-Reagan vacuum is doubly curious because Reagan was himself a vacuum (or seems so to this Eu...
J.G. BALLARD

The test of language is how well it can be translated into other tongues, and sex is the most negoti...
J.G. BALLARD

Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity.
J.G. BALLARD

The core identity is Traven, a name taken consciously from B. Traven, a writer I've always admired f...
J.G. BALLARD

Massive cerebral damage and abdominal bleeding in automobile accidents could be imitated within half...
J.G. BALLARD

Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, d...
J.G. BALLARD

...the look of a man who had made the devil's bargain and knew he had lost.
J.G. BALLARD

Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing ...
J.G. BALLARD

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian s...
J.G. BALLARD

Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models ...
J.G. BALLARD

Travers’s problem is how to come to terms with the violence that has pursued his life - not merely...
J.G. BALLARD

At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided ...
J.G. BALLARD

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself...
J.G. BALLARD

In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world...
J.G. BALLARD

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
J.G. BALLARD

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life
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The ambiguous role of the car crash needs no elaboration—apart from our own deaths, the car crash ...
J.G. BALLARD

Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
J.G. BALLARD

Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact...
J.G. BALLARD

The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensation...
J.G. BALLARD

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance th...
J.G. BALLARD

Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I e...
J.G. BALLARD

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
J.G. BALLARD

And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the ...
J.G. FARRELL

But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in...
J.G. SAXE

A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed ...
J.G. SAXE

Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts...
J.G. SAXE

I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly; And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips o...
J.G. SAXE

The heart is wiser than the intellect. -J.G. Holland.
J.G. HOLLAND

God never said it would be easy .... He just said He would go with me.
J.G. HOLLAND

Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl; A beautiful cross it...
J.G. SAXE

'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
J.G. SAXE

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless h...
J.G. SAXE

We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us....but what if we are a mere a...
J.G. FARRELL

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything....
HANK BALLARD

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
BETTINA BALLARD

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
ROBERT BALLARD

We must recognize ourselves in others before we can acknowledge otherness in ourselves.
BRITTNIE BALLARD

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA...
ROBERT BALLARD

Republicans were kind of in vogue and some Democrats wanted to make overtures to the new governor. T...
BRIAN BALLARD

We came down to two suggestions and we (have yet to) decide yes or no.
BRIAN BALLARD

We had discussed the possibility of printing (expiration dates) on the cards.
BRIAN BALLARD

I think his legacy is pretty well assured.
BRIAN BALLARD

It puts to an end any questions of the unseemly behavior. It's a wonderful thing. It keeps everybody...
BRIAN BALLARD

There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, b...
BRIAN BALLARD

I believe strongly in staying out of that. I think it's a dangerous and foolish business.
BRIAN BALLARD

Money goes to where people think power will be in the future. The smart money is on the Republican P...
BRIAN BALLARD

Right now we are in sort of a lull in the action. We have a weak upper ridge over the Hawaiian islan...
BOB BALLARD

This discovery provides historians with the first look at an actual wreck from a key era of trade in...
BOB BALLARD

My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my...
BOB BALLARD

I would love for someone with more notoriety than myself who has more broad-base appeal you know lik...
BOB BALLARD

It's got it's own groove, everything moves at a different pace; it's like hey if you don't get it do...
BOB BALLARD

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best ...
ROBERT BALLARD

It was a tough loss, but I think they understood how hard they played and how hard they battled. Wha...
CARLA BALLARD

The kids never quit and they continued to battle. Basketball is a game of momentum and I just feel t...
CARLA BALLARD

The girls seemed to refocus after the loss to Grove. Their energy was high. We tried to approach it ...
CARLA BALLARD

We'll have our hands full. They're legit. Definitely, they have good team size.
CARLA BALLARD

(He) just walked in, hugged the cheetah, was great friends with him. They were buddy-buddy in a minu...
CARROLL BALLARD

I tried to make a film that was not a lot of empty (garbage). To me, the film is about the relations...
CARROLL BALLARD

It's a picture book. No story. Just photographs of a little boy growing up with a cheetah. We had to...
CARROLL BALLARD

I'm sick and tired of making animal movies.
CARROLL BALLARD

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.
CARROLL BALLARD

The threat from flash flooding is diminishing rapidly. We're not completely out of the woods, but we...
ROBERT BALLARD

Our chances for rain are diminishing and it looks like that will hold. We're sort of at the tail end...
ROBERT BALLARD

If the thunderstorm parks itself above the summits, there's a good chance for snow.
ROBERT BALLARD

So, I'm able to network experts on demand, when I need them.
ROBERT BALLARD

No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole tim...
ROBERT BALLARD

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
ROBERT BALLARD

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea trage...
ROBERT BALLARD

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world comb...
ROBERT BALLARD

I'm not prepared to go up to $30 million for this project. The process has been subverted and the wi...
CHARLES BALLARD

I am a geologist.
ROBERT BALLARD

We're usually breaking down film when the show is on. There's not much leisure time during the seaso...
MATT BALLARD

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
ROBERT BALLARD

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit i...
ROBERT BALLARD

If people were really, really excited about Ford cars, people would buy more of them.
CHARLES BALLARD

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whateve...
ROBERT BALLARD

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong ...
ROBERT BALLARD

H3 sales are through the roof. For every H2 we sell, we sell about three H3's.
ANDREW BALLARD

I wish it was made here, but it's not.
ANDREW BALLARD

I think overall, they have a slight downturn in sales across the country.
ANDREW BALLARD

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them
BETTINA BALLARD

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Capta...
ROBERT BALLARD

Once You lose love, hope, faith, and confidence in yourself, you lose the people who care about you.
BRITTNIE BALLARD

[But many investors prefer to make offers to property owners before foreclosure.] A lot of times the...
MICHAEL BALLARD

Brakes are typically neglected. It's one of the more important things when you're cruising down that...
DAVE BALLARD

In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time. We won last year's g...
BILL BALLARD

In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time, ... We won last year...
BILL BALLARD

We did not know if he could get the job done, [but] he has played very consistent.
BILL BALLARD

These are high school kids and they make mistakes. Donnie otherwise played a heck of a game for us.
BILL BALLARD

If you've got one guy you're starting and he's not doing well, then you've got other people thinking...
BILL BALLARD

When I do a service I like to go overboard. I make sure it's ready to go. That should be done every ...
DAVE BALLARD

The net result of the competitive tender was that the ESA got two satellites for the price of one.
STEVEN BALLARD

If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It kee...
HANK BALLARD

This is an unusual and dangerous situation. We really want to stress that to people. It's not going ...
ROBERT BALLARD

It doesn't get any sweeter than this. It really doesn't.
JEFF BALLARD

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .
AMY BALLARD

God's already blessed us because he spared our lives so it can't get no worse than it already was. A...
DOMINICK BALLARD

There's no city, no job, no home, there's really nothing to go back to.
DOMINICK BALLARD

There's nothing down South in New Orleans for us to go back to, so basically, this is a new slate fo...
DOMINICK BALLARD

We have nothing to go back to. I mean you know our foundation is gone. Now it's time to build anothe...
DOMINICK BALLARD

Right now this is our home for years to come. We don't have no plans on moving elsewhere but to anot...
DOMINICK BALLARD

Well, actually I have made the step to call them mom and dad.
DOMINICK BALLARD

Well, we had both looked at each other and decided, might as well, because we have nothing else to g...
DOMINICK BALLARD

We have a great location and facilities. We have things to do here that will attract people to come ...
DAWN BALLARD

No idea is too small or insane.
DAWN BALLARD

It's a good opportunity. We are not trying to run tournaments, just trying to facilitate things. Thi...
DAWN BALLARD

We're hoping to have Mr. Small help them in any way he can with his years of experience. We want to ...
DAWN BALLARD

Patience comes to those who wait.
TERRY BALLARD

I prefer sayings over jokes.
ROBERT BALLARD

When I come out it's a one-time deal.
DAVE BALLARD

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's sta...
ROBERT BALLARD

One thing that the mobile-games business has learned in the past year is that brands without good ga...
GREG BALLARD

This year, we'll see games based on musical acts that will be successful.
GREG BALLARD

The valuation was good and so was the investor, so it became a smart strategic decision to take the ...
GREG BALLARD

3D is one of the fastest growing segments in computing and Voodoo3's ... performance will enable our...
GREG BALLARD

I think you're going to see companies out-and-out failing this year,
GREG BALLARD

The company was being bled to death by the lawsuit,
GREG BALLARD

Now we will be in charge of our own destiny.
GREG BALLARD

I think we match up well with Claflin. It will be interesting.
MARSHALL BALLARD

She's one of the ones in practice who always steps up and makes free throws. She's clutch.
MARSHALL BALLARD

At any given time, any of our girls can step up and have a big game, whether it's making baskets or ...
MARSHALL BALLARD

I put it all on the girls. They've done an excellent job of adapting. A lot of things are the same a...
MARSHALL BALLARD

It was all new to me. I was clueless.
MARSHALL BALLARD

It was labor of love.
KATIE BALLARD

I was out here that day, madder than a hornet.
KATIE BALLARD

It feels so good to finally see this house be torn down.
KATIE BALLARD

It was probably the most I've ever been sacked, and some of them were my fault. It was a total team ...
JEFF BALLARD

We should make a push to the top 10.
JEFF BALLARD

The Big 12 is always looked at as a powerhouse conference, and if we are to win this game it would g...
JEFF BALLARD

Everybody wants a ticket. But it's really exciting to be playing at home.
JEFF BALLARD

I know what we're capable of, and in parts of the game we showed it. I thought we had some good driv...
JEFF BALLARD

I give this win to the defense -- they were awesome today.
JEFF BALLARD

It's sort of hard to think about because if we lose, there's nothing left and it's over. We don't ha...
JOE BALLARD

I didn't really think about it until I let it go. I didn't know (how big it was) until after the gam...
JOE BALLARD

It makes you more hungry after losing it last year.
JOE BALLARD

You know, it's not too different. Last year, I pitched in some Friday games. Friday, Saturday, Sunda...
MIKE BALLARD

I see a lot of nice toys they have.
MATT BALLARD

The very next day, we were breaking down film, and started our preparation for our next game against...
MATT BALLARD

We have set our goals very high for the season. They include winning the league title, getting into ...
MATT BALLARD

This is a good group of kids. They hustle all the time. They are very fired up about the season.
MATT BALLARD

They have looked good at the passing leagues.
MATT BALLARD

Both teams are down from the Bay Division. You expect both of them to be good.
MATT BALLARD

The kids are ready to play. It goes beyond getting the pads. They want the competition.
MATT BALLARD

They found a fragment, big deal. Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there's stuff all over ...
ROBERT BALLARD

We didn't play within ourselves. We took bad shots and we were letting them control the pace of the ...
SCOTT BALLARD

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everyt...
J. G. BALLARD

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices...
J. G. BALLARD

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I ...
J. G. BALLARD

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.

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The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.

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