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
  • Inspiration
  • Literature
  • 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

• 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

• 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 saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your truck to the top of the line or get it through at all. It was an absolutely transparently corrupt system at the border - you had to buy your truck's way across. I thought it was a disgrace.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Together
  • Eyes
  • Walking

• Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Up
  • Writing

• If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Good
  • Positive

• That’s a pretty big lie by omission

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Lie
  • Omission

• Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Energy

• I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Used
  • Apartment

• Society always focuses on the negatives. I think they should focus on things I do well like my Axel. It was really good. It is my job to change society.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Society
  • Negatives
  • Focuses

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

  

  Ray Bradbury