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.

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• 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

• 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

• Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

  

  Ric Keller
  • War
  • Support
  • Iraq

• Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Society
  • Value

• You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Run
  • Hit

• Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Chance
  • Happens
  • Behinds

• He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Water
  • Gold
  • Reflection

• We were in the middle of a drought, and it hadn’t rained for months and months and months. And that’s when I knew that your father was like the rain. He was a miracle.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Father
  • Miracle
  • Rained

• 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