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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

  

  Maureen McCormick
  • Serious
  • Competition

• I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

  

  Jerry Herman
  • Up
  • Die

• With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.

  

  Christopher Miller
  • Airplane
  • Pirate

• Am I not with hosts making a din? I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore. Am I not he that is called Gorlassar? My belt was a rainbow to my foe.

  

  Taliesin
  • Rainbow

• Look, if the reason you two aren't speaking doesn't make sense, then the reason you contact him again doesn't have to make sense, either. If nothing makes sense, act accordingly.

  

  Bernard Cooper
  • Reason
  • Speaking
  • Make Sense

• A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Children
  • Done
  • Experience

• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Evil

• If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Regret
  • Stuff
  • Loved

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

  

  Ray Bradbury