Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

Ray Bradbury

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• Wonder
• Busy
• Exploration

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• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Religion
  • Moral
  • Catholic

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Like
  • Just
  • Casual

• I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Say
  • Writer
  • Behind

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • City
  • Morning

• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Hair
  • First

• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Simple

• In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Free
  • Proud

• I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Good
  • Baseball

• I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Mind

• I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'

  

  Craig Horner
  • Remember
  • Team
  • Fighting

• I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • American

• Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

  

  Alastair Campbell

• Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

  

  Lauren Weisberger

• If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Great
  • House

• Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

  

  John O. Brennan

• Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Right
  • Ask
  • Expedient

• We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • War
  • Wonder
  • Busy