Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Ray Bradbury

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• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Fact

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Best

• Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I do honour the very flea of his dog.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Dog

• How do I remain what is called 'normal'? Because for me it's the natural thing to do, and therefore easier than doing something else.

  

  Irene Dunne

• To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • True
  • Peace
  • Ego

• At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Architecture

• Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Style

• There is a page in 'Diary of a Worm' in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Sister

• Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Crush

• Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Attention
  • Wise
  • Author

• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • House
  • Party

• When I play on grass, my body doesn't ache. It can get sore, but it doesn't pulse, and my legs don't ache. When I play on turf, my legs can pulse and ache for up to 24 hours, and it could take 3-5 days to recover, whereas grass, after 24 hours, I'm ready to play again.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up

• Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Good
  • Road

• Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Today
  • Positive
  • Sexy

• Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People

• I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

  

  Mika
  • Identity
  • Find
  • Songs

• I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Money
  • Charity
  • God Bless

• I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Live
  • Teenager

• Without the library, you have no civilization.

  

  Ray Bradbury