Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Very
  • Well
  • Paid

• Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Party
  • Popular

• Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Find
  • Paid
  • Bonus

• Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Know
  • Paid

• And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Paid

• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

  

  William James
  • Effort
  • Forget
  • Paid

• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Destiny
  • Temper
  • Mania

• A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Smile
  • Paid
  • Rewarded

• I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Money
  • Audience
  • Point

• There will be killing till the score is paid.

  

  Homer
  • Killing
  • Paid
  • Score

• You work, you get paid, you drink.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Work
  • Drink
  • Paid

• There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.

  

  Mitch Lasky
  • Game
  • Paid
  • Winds

• I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Sing

• A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Jobs
  • Company
  • Paid

• Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Paid

• Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

  

  Billie Letts
  • Act
  • Paid
  • Offer

• The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Uncertain
  • Schemes
  • Phonetics

• One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Kills
  • Spectator

• In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

  

  John Milton
  • End
  • Conversation
  • Gods

• I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Political

• If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Leave
  • Map
  • Spot

• I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Paid
  • Mania