Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • School
  • High
  • New

• You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • High
  • Mom

• There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • High
  • Texas
  • Oil

• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Earth
  • City

• 'I cannot raise my worth too high;Of what vast consequence am I!''Not of the importance you suppose,'Replies a Flea upon his nose;'Be humble, learn thyself to scan;Know, pride was never made for man.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • High
  • Pride
  • Humble

• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • High
  • Savage

• I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo

• Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Logic

• At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

  

  Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Why
  • Age
  • Career

• I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judge

• I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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  • Tower