Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

Ray Bradbury

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• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Complex

• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  

  Idi Amin
  • You
  • Run
  • Bullet

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Mind

• Whatever people want to call me, I'm cool with, except 'Zinger.'

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • People
  • Cool

• There's something to be said about a girl who knows what she wants. One of my favorite girls to dress is Diane Kruger. It's always so easy with her. I know her body and what works. When it's right, it's not a lot of effort.

  

  Jason Wu
  • She
  • Girl
  • Effort

• I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.

  

  Andrew Benintendi

• We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's very difficult to blend in over there.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • World
  • Different

• It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

  

  David Harris
  • Stupid
  • Sad

• Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Character

• I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Book

• When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Conscious
  • Positivity

• When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Fire
  • Luck