Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

Ray Bradbury

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Man
  • Worst
  • Corruption

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Surprised
  • Self-Esteem
  • Addict

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Words
  • Light
  • Speak

• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Connected

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• Impatience is a virtue.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Virtue
  • Impatience

• If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Work
  • You
  • Down

• Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

  

  Yukio Mishima

• I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Remember

• There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Band
  • Pink
  • Rainbow

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• Strange how tightly one's body could be held, how close to somebody else's heart, and yet one wasn't anywhere near the holder. They locked you up in prisons that way, holding your body tight and thinking they had got you, and all the while your mind—you—was as free as the wind and the sunlight. She couldn't help it, she struggled hard to feel as she had felt when she woke up and saw him sitting near her; but the way he had refused to be friends, the complete absence of any readiness in him to meet her, not half, nor even a quarter, but a little bit of the way, had for the first time made her consciously afraid of him.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Strange

• Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Great
  • Something
  • Lot

• If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Good

• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Strange