Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

Ray Bradbury

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Space
  • Communication

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist

• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Tired

• Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Together
  • Giving

• For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • God

• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Intuition

• The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Alone
  • Philosophical

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Remember
  • American
  • City

• I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up

• I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Important

• Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

  

  Marty Meehan
  • America
  • Past

• If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

  

  Martha McSally
  • American
  • Hope

• The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Pet

• Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Revolution
  • Garden

• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Attention
  • Obedience
  • Cellars

• I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Night
  • Small
  • Sleep

• The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Great
  • Real
  • Night

• Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Man
  • Happens

• Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Tree
  • Gone