Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

It was a pleasure to burn.

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• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Book
  • Church
  • Directors

• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Depends
  • Letters
  • Melody

• Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Time
  • Important
  • May

• I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Love
  • Sex
  • Sing

• Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released a CD.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Winning
  • Bigger
  • CDs

• Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, little Bits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

  

  Ayah Bdeir
  • Program
  • Bits
  • Intuitive

• I fool around with colors and decorating, which I thoroughly enjoy. Also, I scribble a bit for my own particular pleasure. This scribbling might be something I want to do in a future show.

  

  Agnes Moorehead
  • Want
  • Pleasure
  • Show

• I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Really
  • Led Zeppeline

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• It was a pleasure to burn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Pleasure