Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

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• Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • True
  • Game
  • Winning

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Fear

• Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Earth
  • Walking

• I don't sign contracts for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Book
  • Contracts

• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • May

• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Crush

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Courage
  • Potential

• They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Light
  • Air
  • Fire

• Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Feeling
  • Joy
  • Feelings

• And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Friend

• I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• ...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Voice
  • Swearing

• You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World

• If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Different
  • School
  • History

• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Good
  • Interesting

• You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • School
  • Years
  • Lasts

• If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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