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

• 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

• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  

  William James
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Language
  • Thing

• I am not at their orders, but at those of Nature! My confreres doubtless have their reasons for working as you have said. But in thus doing violence to nature and treating human beings like puppets, they run the risk of producing lifeless and artificial work...

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Violence

• It was a pleasure to burn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Pleasure