Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Ray Bradbury

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• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Los Angeles

• I didn't even start college until I was 21.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • College
  • Start
  • Even

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Mysticism

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Remember
  • Fighting
  • Lives

• When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Use
  • Bother

• The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doe

• I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Giving
  • Faith
  • Trust

• I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

  

  Lisa See
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Fight

• Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Environment

• According to government ethics rules and FOMC rules, it is permissible for a retired governor to speak in public about the economy, so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • She
  • Economy

• Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Lovers

• I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • America
  • I Love
  • Taxes

• True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • God
  • True
  • Beauty

• In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

  

  Michael Shanks
  • Science
  • Goals
  • Actors

• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Dream
  • Reality

• If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

  

  Alan Thein Durning
  • Generations
  • Resources
  • Lifestyle

• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Spirit
  • Journey
  • Love Is

• Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Happens
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy