Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

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• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• By suns unsettling kist. Out through the utmost gates of space, Past where the gray stars drift, To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on, a vessel swift, Yet loses not her anchorage In yonder azure rift.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Space

• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Control

• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Life

• I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Movie

• A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Book
  • Bad

• The fundamental question I believe is, 'Is political Islam in our best interest?' If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

  

  James Mattis
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Support

• I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

  

  David Cameron
  • Country
  • Leadership

• Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Business

• I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • Remember

• I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • She
  • Respect

• Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Moment
  • Appetite

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Earth
  • Food

• I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Breakfast

• We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Talent