Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Ideas

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Know
  • Almost

• We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • World
  • Best
  • Event

• If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • World
  • Respect
  • Person

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Way

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Live
  • Shadows

• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • World
  • Respect
  • Best

• The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • World
  • True
  • Serious

• Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • May

• Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Friends
  • Party

• Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Money
  • Simple

• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Book
  • Way