Ballast Quote by Julien Torma

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

— Tim Wu

“I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not Joyce or…

— Eric Bogosian

I feel music is another kind of literature.

— Kevin Young

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and…

— Paul Di Filippo

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,”

— Jack L. Chalker

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

— Samuel Beckett

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him…

— Félix J. Palma

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if…

— George Santayana

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day.…

— Steve Fossett

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

— Maya Angelou

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

— Adolf Hitler