Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
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This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
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I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
