Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Ray Bradbury

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• So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Best
  • Present
  • Husband

• For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Three

• Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Grammar
  • Longer

• I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Waiting

• New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Home
  • City

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Writer

• Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Truck

• I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Confidence

• I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Time
  • Good

• Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • America
  • Today

• As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Understanding

• I seldom look back.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• I'm either dressing like a rocker chick, or I'm looking like I just stepped out of ancient Greece! It all depends on my mood. I love bohemian vibes, too.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Mood

• Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music - all the solo singers were out of work.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Work
  • Music

• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Taste
  • Capacity
  • Discovered

• Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Fear

• We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Live

• The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

  

  Ray Bradbury