Super Cannes Quotes & Sayings

Madness--that's all they have, after working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. Going mad is their only way of staying sane. — J.G. Ballard

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop. — Jo Jones

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. — Jennie Garth

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes. — Patricia Richardson

Work dominates life in Eden-Olympia, and drives out everything else. The dream of a leisure society was the great twentieth-century delusion. Work is the new leisure. Talented and ambitious people work harder than they have ever done, and for longer hours. They find their only fulfillment through work. The men and women running successful companies need to focus their energies on the task in front of them, and for every minute of the day. The last thing they want is recreation. — J.G. Ballard

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley

May my mind be clear and my heart pure. — Joanie Schirm

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. — Jim Hodges

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays. — Sebastian Bach

(On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat. — Will Arnett

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected. What else can drive the bizarre shifts in the entertainment landscape that will keep us "buying"? Psychopathy is the only engine powerful enough to light our imaginations, to drive the arts, sciences and industries of the world. — J.G. Ballard