Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Ray Bradbury

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• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Nice
  • Flower
  • Weed

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Unknown

• We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • World
  • America
  • Me

• No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Proud
  • English
  • Beauty

• I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Work
  • Real
  • Care

• It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Time
  • Children

• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  

  Aaron David Gordon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Power

• I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Suffering

• A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

  

  Xaviera Hollander

• Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Step
  • Doors

• A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Never
  • Gentleman

• If you wish to try and take something from me, then you had best be prepared to give your life in the process.

  

  Wang Yi
  • Life
  • Give
  • Take

• I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Moving

• I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Funny
  • They Say

• It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Attention
  • Language

• I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Eye
  • Possibility
  • Behinds