Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

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• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Wife
  • Christian
  • Blue

• The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Internet
  • Guys
  • Well

• ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Material
  • Unsuccessful

• You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Game

• I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics.  :-(

  

  Larry Wall

• I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Small
  • Inspired
  • Paris

• Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Children
  • Present

• Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Law
  • Wall

• Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Truth
  • Style

• I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

  

  Leslie Cockburn

• Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Alone

• SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'

  

  Kygo
  • Music

• I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

  

  Preet Bharara
  • Worry

• We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Women
  • Why
  • Learning

• We accepted the UN resolution, but the Arabs did not. They are preparing to make war on us. If we defeat them and capture western Galilee or territory on both sides of the road to Jerusalem, these areas will become part of the state. Why should we obligate ourselves to accept boundaries that in any case the Arabs don't accept?

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • Why
  • War
  • Road

• The Minimalists were nonobjective. They just recorded beauty, I guess, without the emotions - or at least without personal emotions. My work is a little more emotional than that.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Emotional

• You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Moments
  • Angry

• You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

  

  Ray Bradbury