Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Matter
  • Sacred

• We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Soldiers
  • Six
  • Indians

• Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Love
  • Free
  • Filmmaking

• At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Week

• The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Being

• There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Souls
  • Courageous
  • Impels

• For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Reading

• If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Knows
  • Ifs
  • Lasts

• The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Parents

• First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Peace

• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Union
  • Negroes

• Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Fans
  • Critics
  • Surprising

• Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Opportunity
  • Shame
  • Passed

• I just got my own method of just trying to be really good and I guess it’s just a matter of working at it.

  

  Joey Belladonna Anthrax
  • Good
  • Working
  • Method

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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