Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Ray Bradbury

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

  Laura Ziskin
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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.

  

  Donald Trump
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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
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• I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

  

  James Brown
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Might

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Able

• Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
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• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
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• No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
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  • Stories

• I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked to her for a couple of minutes. My mom said she nearly fell off her chair, she was so excited.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Mom
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  • Chair

• If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

  

  George Foreman
  • Dream
  • Might
  • Wells

• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
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• Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

  

  William Warburton
  • Interest
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  • Deceived

• Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sometimes
  • Thrown

• I'm a klutz, through and through.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Through

• When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Play
  • Create

• The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Firsts
  • Might
  • Excited