Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Ray Bradbury

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• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Children
  • Worry

• If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Mind
  • Die

• I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Dog

• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Writing

• I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Picture
  • Missing
  • Photography

• Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War

• I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Guy
  • Cool

• I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

  

  Berenice Marlohe
  • Women
  • Paris

• Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

  

  Jim Morris
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Country

• Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Door

• When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Romantic

• I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know, Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • She
  • Guy
  • Daughter

• I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Period
  • Safety

• Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • More
  • Making
  • Vocation

• I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Environment

• If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Singing
  • Chance
  • Husband

• Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

  

  Sally Field
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Ever

• The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

  

  Ray Bradbury