Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Ray Bradbury

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• I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

  

  Foster Friess
  • World
  • Work
  • Law

• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • History
  • Learn

• I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Small
  • Never

• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
  • Actor
  • More

• I do not favor the gag order.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Order
  • Favor
  • Gag

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Thought
  • Choice
  • Patriotic

• Security, freedom, dignity, if we had these three we could say that it has been worth while being born into this world and I would like all the young people of Burma and young people all over the world to be able to feel that it was right that they have been born into this world.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• My work is always very geometric.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Work

• Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Great
  • Believe
  • May

• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People

• Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched 'Merlin' has probably concluded that it's not accurate whatsoever - but, it's not meant to be. It's not meant to be a true telling. It's in a fantasy setting, it's really concentrating on the fantasy element.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • True

• When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Intelligent
  • Haters

• I'm always concerned about how our state looks.

  

  Doug Ducey

• My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Home
  • Reading
  • Morning

• I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.

  

  Charles Bock
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Good
  • Home
  • Business

• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Time
  • Together
  • Taken

• What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Fool

• It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Rip

• Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Time

• Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Morning