J.G. Ballard Quotes

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

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

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

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

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

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

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

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

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

Remember that our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know you best and love you the most.

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

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

Fiction is a branch of neurology

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

You don't let a historic site rot.

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

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

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

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

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

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.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

Pollinate the world with the pure love of Christ.

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