Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Place
  • Boston

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Bond

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• Paris ain't much of a town.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Paris
  • Much
  • Town

• I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Children
  • Alive
  • Complain

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Men
  • Future
  • Man

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Space

• It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Soul
  • Moral

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  

  Kiran Desai

• The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

  

  Kahlil Gibran

• As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men
  • Live
  • Law

• He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Teenager

• I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Nice

• The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

  

  Mary Page Keller
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• (...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Pride
  • Smile
  • Beast