Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

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• For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • True
  • Know
  • Same

• I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  

  Lester B. Pearson

• Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  

  Eliza Farnham
  • Life
  • God

• My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Wonder

• My first few years in the league, I was relying on my athleticism to get me by, because that's what got me to the NBA. The problem with that is, you end up getting really, really tired by February.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Tired
  • February

• Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Political
  • Law

• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Rock

• I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Good
  • Country
  • Home

• I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Crazy

• I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Business
  • Question

• I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Different

• I like Bobby Flay's attitude and his approach towards food. I think he's just passionate and very honest. I find him very honest about food and cooking and ingredients and I admire that because I think that it's easy to get away from that for various reasons.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Food
  • Attitude
  • Cooking

• I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

  

  Jamie Wyeth

• With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • World
  • Together
  • Stop

• Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

  

  Daniel Lyons

• It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Destiny
  • Goose

• I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Writing
  • Fun