Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Fire the doubters out of your life.

Ray Bradbury

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• We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Revolution

• I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Myself
  • Fire
  • Tried

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • America
  • Government
  • Fire

• My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Nice
  • Moments
  • Fire

• I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Military
  • Service
  • Fire

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Fire

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Woman
  • Fire

• I fought fire with oil.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Fire
  • Oil
  • Fought

• I went through a low phase for two years when I had a string of flops. At that time, I even felt that I was in the wrong profession and that I should leave acting. But thankfully, I utilised that time to introspect and went on a self-exploration trip. I did theatre in between, and it helped grow the fire within me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Fire
  • Theatre

• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Fire
  • Admire

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Fire
  • Greek

• while lighting a fire on the beach Fuck! Go to Alaska! No, no, no, no. You fucking asshole ocean! No!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fire
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Live
  • Art

• My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?

  

  James Joyce
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Alone

• I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Sports

• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Motion

• Fire the doubters out of your life.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fire
  • Doubters