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Sooner or later, all games become serious. — J.G. Ballard

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. — J.G. Ballard

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror. — J.G. Ballard

If you can call a Chevrolet a Chev, why can't you call a Japanese a Jap? — Harold Ballard

The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door. — M. Russell Ballard

Riots followed hunger like thunder follows lightning. — Gary A. Ballard

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g. — J.G. Ballard

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. — Robert Ballard

This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like ... "
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church ... — J.G. Ballard

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? — Robert Ballard

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride. — M. Russell Ballard

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream. — J.G. Ballard

I admired anyone who could unsettle people. — J.G. Ballard

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

Almost pedantically, she added: They're not really bombs
they're acoustic provocations. — J.G. Ballard

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs. — Harold Ballard

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War ... — J.G. Ballard

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

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. — J.G. Ballard

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel. — M. Russell Ballard

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. — J.G. Ballard

Spend your energy on things that make a difference. — M. Russell Ballard

Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens — Harold Ballard

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made. — M. Russell Ballard

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short. — Geoffrey Ballard

... We never will have balance in our lives unless our finances are securely under control. — M. Russell Ballard

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success. — M. Russell Ballard

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality. — Melvin J. Ballard

The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement. — M. Russell Ballard

Sex times technology equals the future. — J.G. Ballard

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause. — M. Russell Ballard

One looks forward to the day when the General Theory of Relativity and the Principia will outsell the Kama Sutra in back-street bookshops. — J.G. Ballard

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. — J.G. Ballard

What's been happening?"
"Nothing... It's already happened — J.G. Ballard

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. — M. Russell Ballard

It had not occurred to me that sexual games could be played with an unborn child. — J.G. Ballard

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities. — M. Russell Ballard

Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives. — M. Russell Ballard

I prefer sayings over jokes. — Robert Ballard

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live. — Robert Ballard

Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ. — M. Russell Ballard

The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.' — M. Russell Ballard

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. — J.G. Ballard

Fiction is a branch of neurology — J.G. Ballard

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J.G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. — J.G. Ballard

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J.G. Ballard

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

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church. — M. Russell Ballard

The suburbs dream of violence. — J.G. Ballard

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J.G. Ballard

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity. — M. Russell Ballard

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept. — M. Russell Ballard

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

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good — Jackie Ballard

Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth. — J.G. Ballard

We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us — J.G. Ballard

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing. — J.G. Ballard

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. — J.G. Ballard

The car as we know it is on the way out. — J.G. Ballard

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J.G. Ballard

I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for. — Harold Ballard

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. — J.G. Ballard

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. — J.G. Ballard

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. — J.G. Ballard

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. — Robert Ballard

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. — J.G. Ballard

For all his youth, he seemed to be willing himself to the edge of an adult despair. — J.G. Ballard

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

I am a geologist. — Robert Ballard

Sometimes she makes you very sad....she touches something in you, and you've begun to touch back. - Bob Ballard — Charles Pellegrino

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. — J.G. Ballard

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" — Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot. — Robert Ballard

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

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan. — Robert Ballard

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom. — J.G. Ballard

I'm a bad ass. A bad ass who bakes when he's depressed. — Myra McEntire

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — J.G. Ballard

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. — Robert Ballard

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face. — J.G. Ballard

I'll propose anything where I can make a buck. — Harold Ballard

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy. — J.G. Ballard

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. — J.G. Ballard

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

I realized if I didn't have a standard for something I would fall for anything. — Laverne M. Ballard

Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love. — M. Russell Ballard

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol! — J.G. Ballard

I'd challenge gods and queens to make you mine, Ballard. Conquer a kingdom or two if necessary. — Grace Draven

Pollinate the world with the pure love of Christ. — M. Russell Ballard

Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives. — J.G. Ballard

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos. — J.G. Ballard

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen. — J.G. Ballard

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. — Robert Ballard

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever. — M. Russell Ballard

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. — J.G. Ballard

A ton of Proust isn't worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury. — J.G. Ballard

It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. — M. Russell Ballard

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. — Robert Ballard