Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury

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• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Me

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Smile

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fool

• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • She
  • Fool
  • Islamic

• I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Doubt
  • Fool
  • Romantic

• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Fool

• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

  

  John Dryden
  • Different
  • Wise
  • Fool

• If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

  

  Al Bernstein
  • Done
  • Job
  • Fool

• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Fool

• If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Fool
  • Able
  • Arguing

• I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Feelings
  • Looks
  • Talent

• If it looks like this is a leaky system despite FDA's efforts to really step it up, we may very well call for it to be taken off the market.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • System
  • Efforts
  • Leaky

• Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • World
  • Long
  • Health

• My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

  

  Miranda Leek
  • Goals
  • Reach
  • Achieving

• You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Looks
  • Fool
  • Able