Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

Ray Bradbury

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• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

  

  Malese Jow
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Hybrid

• The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Point
  • Storytelling
  • Urban

• I totally want, like, 18 babies.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Want
  • Like
  • Babies

• Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Want
  • Mom

• There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

  

  Halsey
  • House
  • Alone
  • Myself

• My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

  

  Becky G
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Keep

• I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • President
  • Agree
  • Policies

• Tom Cruise is dope.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Dope
  • Cruise
  • Tom Cruise

• The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Imagination

• I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Travel

• What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Nature
  • Sea

• It's just sad that one's attitude is always speculated, even if you've not done something.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Done
  • Attitude
  • Sad

• I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song
  • Candy

• When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written.

  

  Ellen Klages
  • Time
  • World
  • Writing

• I'm the guy who puts projects together.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • Together
  • Guy

• Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.

  

  Jessica Pare

• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Time
  • Society

• I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Abuse

• And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

  

  Ray Bradbury