Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Ray Bradbury

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• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Three

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Remember
  • Lawyer
  • I Can

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Things
  • Friendships
  • Other

• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Career
  • Freedom

• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Die
  • Judge
  • Islamic

• As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Remember
  • Attention
  • Teacher

• Life has to be dangerous.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Life

• I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Strong
  • Support
  • Running

• I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Lost

• I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

  

  Alisha Boe
  • Sad

• I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.

  

  Max Martin
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Empowering

• I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

  

  Jeff Beck
  • People
  • Why

• Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Emotional
  • Model

• People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • People
  • Good
  • Dance

• I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Life
  • Writing

• You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Great

• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People

• My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

  

  Ray Bradbury