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

• 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

• The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

  

  Steve Blank
  • World
  • Show
  • Run

• When . . . some leisurely passer-by stopped . . . and spoke of cheating, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Cheating

• Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

  

  Bart Decrem
  • Companies
  • Figure Out

• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Justice
  • Honesty

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

  

  Ray Bradbury