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

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• 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

• It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Responsibility
  • Famous

• 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 started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

  

  John Battelle
  • School
  • Career
  • Passion

• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Book
  • Wise

• Do what he will, he the profane man is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Man
  • Behavior
  • Realities

• In France they don't think I'm difficult.

  

  David Bailey

• My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

  

  Len Wein
  • Father
  • Comics
  • Hospital

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

  

  Ray Bradbury