Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • End

• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Me
  • Next
  • Project

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Change
  • Week
  • Relax

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Best

• I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Television

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Man
  • Very
  • Obscure

• I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • See
  • Popcorn

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Like
  • Actress
  • Chameleon

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Never

• The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Should
  • Internet
  • West

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Successful
  • Adversity
  • Block

• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Free
  • Value

• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Country
  • Way
  • Democracy