Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

Ray Bradbury

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
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• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Time
  • Difficult
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• I have only one real hobby - my husband.

  

  Florence Harding
  • Real
  • Husband
  • Hobby

• I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Space

• But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Woman

• Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Driving
  • Never Forget

• Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Destroy
  • Meeting

• I like soundtracks and I like film.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Like
  • Film
  • Soundtracks

• She was his life,The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • She
  • Thoughts

• "the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

  

  Livy
  • Desire
  • Fall
  • Honor

• That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Experience
  • Competition
  • Stock

• 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'

  

  Arthur Scargill
  • Life
  • Power
  • Father

• You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Popular

• I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Dream
  • Song
  • Night

• When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fall
  • Brain
  • Enough