Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • You
  • Go

• What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Think
  • Years

• I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  

  Don McLean
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

  

  Sean Paul
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Style

• One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • People
  • Celebrity

• Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Time

• Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

  

  Phil Schiller

• When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Taken
  • Football

• The people's voice, as I say, is the voice of God.

  

  Emmerson Mnangagwa
  • People
  • God

• The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.

  

  David Plouffe
  • People
  • American

• I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Country

• For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best. Presented by Pamela Paul, each episode has an interview with an author - recent guests have included Neil Gaiman and Sana Krasikov - plus a roundup of the uppers, downers and hanging-arounders on the U.S. bestsellers chart.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Book
  • Author

• Every building must have... its own soul.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Soul

• A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

  

  Douglas Dunn

• The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Woman
  • Intelligent
  • Rare

• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  

  David Walker
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Father

• Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Library
  • Destination