Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

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• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Education
  • Know

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

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

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Being

• Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don't always want to expose it, and maybe we've been taught that way or whatever. It's just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Want
  • Try

• As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Character

• I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

  

  Elvis Costello

• History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

  

  Jim Murphy
  • People
  • Experience
  • History

• I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

  

  Princess Diana
  • People
  • Job

• I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reality

• I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Done
  • Character
  • Success

• I was never the person who came up with a boom somehow. I worked slowly and consistently, making my way up the rankings, so there wasn't one special moment.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Up

• I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Animal

• My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat.

  

  Ben McLemore
  • Family
  • Help
  • House

• I love thigh highs, heels, shorts, or a skirt.

  

  Aja Naomi King

• If you have the tendency to repress your anger, you have lost touch with an important part of yourself. Getting angry is a way to gain back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your displeasure with a situation, and letting others know how you wish to be treated. It can motivate you to make needed changes in a relationship or other areas of your life. Finally it can let others know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Changes
  • Anger

• My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Sacrifice

• (talking about The Lord Of The Dance) Have you seen that show? If you have, GET OUT! Get the hell out of my show right now!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Dance

• I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

  

  Ray Bradbury