I find it quite funny—no, hilarious—that despite my deep hatred for myself, if ever given the ch...
J. "CYLO" G. While reality and imagination is truth, everything and nothing is reality, for truth is merely imagi...
J. "CYLO" G. The superiority complex of humans is astonishing. We always speak of other animals as if we were not...
J. "CYLO" G. Death is our savior from life.
J. "CYLO" G. I sometimes wonder if I am mad, but then I wonder what it means to be mad. I mean, can you truly say...
J. "CYLO" G. I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doc...
J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. STEDMAN During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
J. G. STEDMAN 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 Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in...
J. G. BALLARD People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rai...
J. G. BALLARD I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find...
J. G. BALLARD In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. BALLARD I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like ...
J. G. BALLARD The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbani...
J. G. BALLARD There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fa...
J. G. BALLARD No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway&#...
J. G. BALLARD Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spend...
J. G. BALLARD The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and r...
J. G. BALLARD I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
J. G. BALLARD Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap a...
J. G. BALLARD The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strang...
J. G. BALLARD Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not nee...
J. G. BALLARD Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.
J. G. GALLIMORE Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs t...
J. G. GALLIMORE We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics cond...
J. G. BALLARD I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer po...
J. G. BALLARD Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprun...
J. G. BALLARD Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
J. G. BALLARD Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need ...
J. G. BALLARD A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. BALLARD He always looked forward to the evening drives through the centre of Shanghai, this electric and lur...
J. G. BALLARD People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of ...
J. G. BALLARD Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort de...
J. G. BALLARD In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. BALLARD Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
J. G. GALLIMORE A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, ...
J. G. BALLARD Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is l...
J. G. BALLARD I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything...
J. G. BALLARD Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th centur...
J. G. BALLARD Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in whi...
J. G. BALLARD The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basicall...
J. G. BALLARD What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in c...
J. G. BALLARD I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- ...
J. G. BALLARD The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of r...
J. G. BALLARD The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever...
J. G. BALLARD A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's stil...
J. G. COZZENS God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. HOLLAND I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenu...
J. G. BALLARD I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned ...
J. G. BALLARD Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in...
J. G. BALLARD I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are large...
J. G. BALLARD I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the b...
J. G. BALLARD I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved t...
J. G. BALLARD Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent amb...
J. G. BALLARD In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at ...
J. G. BALLARD At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to...
J. G. BALLARD Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static bac...
J. G. BALLARD The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentatio...
J. G. BALLARD My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian...
J. G. BALLARD There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. HOLLAND I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Cruso...
J. G. BALLARD One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfort...
J. G. BALLARD Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. BALLARD A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satis...
J. G. BALLARD When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baude...
J. G. BALLARD A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the ...
J. G. HOLLAND There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. HOLLAND I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everythin...
J. G. BALLARD Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent worl...
J. G. BALLARD An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
J. G. BALLARD I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-contr...
J. G. BALLARD The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dyna...
J. G. BALLARD I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t...
J. G. BALLARD Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy...
J. G. BALLARD I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a...
J. G. BALLARD There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching ...
J. G. BALLARD The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I k...
J. G. BALLARD My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-d...
J. G. BALLARD Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known th...
J. G. BALLARD I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of L...
J. G. BALLARD I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - t...
J. G. BALLARD Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. BALLARD The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basicall...
J. G. BALLARD The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set u...
J. G. BALLARD The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early r...
J. G. BALLARD Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent amb...
J. G. BALLARD The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at larg...
J. G. BALLARD The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a va...
J. G. BALLARD I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much...
J. G. BALLARD My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I ...
J. G. BALLARD There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a ...
J. G. BALLARD The heart is wiser than the intellect.
J. G. HOLLAND There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which gr...
J. G. HOLLAND E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the ...
J. G. BALLARD I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
J. G. BALLARD Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrate...
J. G. BALLARD Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males ...
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doc...
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some...
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly ...
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. BRAINARD Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J G C BRAINARD Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. T...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is aro...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religiou...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express t...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living wi...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and th...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to ret...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, bu...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before e...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginnin...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
G-EAZY Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.
WARREN G My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo...
WARREN G I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trade...
WARREN G If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S...
WARREN G For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio...
WARREN G Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartm...
WARREN G Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was othe...
WARREN G I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're tak...
WARREN G It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and lov...
WARREN G A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym......
WARREN G I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being...
BECKY G My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school ...
BECKY G I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with i...
G-EAZY My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good...
G. HANNELIUS I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxin...
G. HANNELIUS Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy,...
G. HANNELIUS With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super ...
G. HANNELIUS I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are the...
G-EAZY I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into m...
G-EAZY I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you c...
G-EAZY I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
G-EAZY You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
G-EAZY In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans ar...
G-EAZY When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like ...
G-EAZY When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.
G-EAZY I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was s...
G-EAZY I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
G-EAZY My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support w...
G-EAZY Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.
G-EAZY Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black,...
G-EAZY I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to medit...
G-EAZY I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have ...
G-EAZY Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live...
G-EAZY Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver...
G-EAZY When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos...
BECKY G Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. RANDOLF I interact with my fans mostly through Twitter, and I like to do livestreams about every two weeks, ...
BECKY G I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
BECKY G Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I...
BECKY G I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
BECKY G This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
BECKY G My family are my friends.
BECKY G I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.
BECKY G I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
BECKY G Coffee is my water now.
BECKY G I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody ...
BECKY G When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland...
BECKY G My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's...
BECKY G I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday traditi...
BECKY G I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
BECKY G I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I&#...
BECKY G If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
BECKY G I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
BECKY G I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my ...
BECKY G My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
BECKY G Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to som...
BECKY G I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
BECKY G One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention amon...
G. EMMONS Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
G. RANDOLF The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.
G. EMMONS Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thin postpoems.com.
LAUREN G I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or acc...
KENNY G My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More '...
BECKY G When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song ...
G-EAZY Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but...
BECKY G Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, bu...
BECKY G 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, ...
BECKY G In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use th...
G-EAZY Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wea...
BECKY G