Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Ray Bradbury

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• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Hope
  • Change

• Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Health

• I'm a working-class person, working with class.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • Working
  • Class

• The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Me
  • Space
  • Thrive

• I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

  

  Laraine Day
  • Better
  • Working
  • More

• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• The air of one’s native country is the most healthy air.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Country
  • Air

• You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Effort

• I'm actually improving.

  

  Jenn Suhr

• I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

  

  Carol Berg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • Up
  • God
  • Car

• The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.

  

  James Lipton
  • Work

• My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Work
  • Job
  • Fun

• Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

  

  Leon Jouhaux
  • Military
  • Service

• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson

• I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Time
  • Golf

• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • God
  • Heart

• I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • World
  • Failure
  • Everybody

• What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

  

  Ray Bradbury