J. G. Ballard Quotes

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

The connection of the car to the driver is the seat. You are strapped in tightly in it. On the motorcycle, you can move around. The G-forces feel different. It's probably harder to change from the car to the motorcycle.

No fat batboy is invisible.

On My First Driving Lesson “First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?…Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that’s not moving makes you an asshole.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.