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

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • American

• 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

• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Patience

• There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Director

• Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • God
  • Confidence
  • Victory

• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Moral

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

  

  Ray Bradbury