Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

My business is to prevent the future.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Man
  • Television
  • Only

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Leave
  • Watch

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Masculinity

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Knowledge
  • Day
  • Practice

• El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Witty

• When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Theatre

• As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Up

• Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • May

• I really hope that I can be as good as some people think I can be. But I may never work again... and that's the reality of the film industry. So, it's nice but I wouldn't want to go into something feeing like I needed to prove that I was good enough to be there. Maybe in some ways, it makes me think: "Do you know what? Some people think I'm alright, so maybe I should go into a job thinking I'm not rubbish." But I don't really think about it.

  

  Aisling Loftus
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Film Industry

• If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

  

  Dwayne Hickman
  • Music
  • Business

• I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Life

• It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'

  

  Andra Day
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Girl

• My business is to prevent the future.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Business
  • Future