Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Ray Bradbury

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• It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Important
  • Trust
  • Justice

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Future
  • Violence

• After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • School
  • Money
  • Drama

• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
  • Child

• He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Why
  • May

• I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Rock

• I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Important

• I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered; who am I to say no? I'm definitely working class, and I always will be.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Legacy

• One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • People
  • Writing
  • Today

• All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Live

• When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Done

• To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Imagination

• We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • World

• Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • God
  • Jesus

• A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

  

  Nicolle Wallace
  • Race
  • Cover
  • Newsrooms

• We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Wrong

• And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Important
  • Car
  • Racing

• Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

  

  Ray Bradbury