Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

Ray Bradbury

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• I like risky stuff.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Risky

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• I have a smile 24/7.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Smile

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Respect
  • Smile
  • Short

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• For ne'erWas flattery lost on poet's ear:A simple race! they waste their toilFor the vain tribute of a smile.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Lost
  • Simple
  • Smile

• In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Together
  • Night
  • Strong

• I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Home
  • Smile
  • Texas

• Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Live
  • Giving
  • Smile

• In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Training

• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

  

  William Blake
  • Heaven
  • Passions
  • Governed

• The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Ernest Moniz
  • Nature
  • Clock Is Ticking
  • Greenhouse gas emissions

• One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Comedy
  • Jesus
  • Judge

• He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Smile
  • Stuff
  • Skins