Ballardian Quotes & Sayings

As a manager, you need to make professional friends and contacts, not BFFs. — Chad Halverson

Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes. — Anne Rivers Siddons

Nothing endures for so long as fear. Everywhere in nature one sees evidence of innate releasing mechanisms literally millions of years old, which have lain dormant through thousands of generations but retained their power undiminished. The field rat's inherited image of the hawk's silhouette is the classic example - even a paper silhouette drawn across a cage sends it rushing frantically for cover. And how else can you explain the universal but completely groundless loathing of the spider, only one species of which has ever been known to sting? Or hatred of snakes and reptiles? Simply because we all carry within us a submerged memory of the time when the giant spiders were lethal, and when the reptiles were the planet's dominant life form. — J.G. Ballard

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. — Tea Obreht

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction ... some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland. — J.G. Ballard

Fingers you, claws me, crossed hoping Dad sees it that way. — Jazz Feylynn

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J.G. Ballard

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.' — Lev Grossman

Given that external reality
is a fiction, the writer's role
is almost superfluous. He
does not need to invent the
fiction because it is already
there. — J.G. Ballard

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants. — Phillips Brooks

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor. — Barry Ritholtz

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference. — Warren Ellis