America Quote by J. G. Ballard Download Open image “The suburbs dream of violence.” — J. G. Ballard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Crime Dream Dreams Modern Modern world Suburbs Violence World
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos. — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and… — Josh Hamilton Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
