Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Ray Bradbury

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• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
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  • Hands

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
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• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
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  • Computers

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Stop
  • Understand
  • Humble

• He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Nature
  • Mystery
  • Idiot

• When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Done
  • Poetry

• At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
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• You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Trying
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• If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Certain
  • Details
  • Airplane

• Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Children
  • Father
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• A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Men
  • Hands
  • Lying

• But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.

  

  Tilda Swinton
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  • Certain
  • Producers

• We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
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  • Hands
  • My Heart

• Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Hands
  • Remind
  • New Work

• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Door
  • Nasty

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hands
  • Certain
  • Answers