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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not revolutionary, changes in how the Archdiocese with its parishes and ministries is organized, how it's resourced, how it's staffed.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Church

• I'm not a wallflower, and I encourage girls to live that way.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Live

• Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Science
  • Engineering

• I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Work

• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Reality
  • Political

• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Violence
  • Wonder

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  

  Mary Stewart
  • Men
  • Live
  • Death

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

  

  Ray Bradbury