Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Ray Bradbury

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• Imaginative

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Family
  • Think
  • Me

• True friends stab you in the front.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • True
  • Front

• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Right
  • Possible

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• Declamation roared, while Passion slept.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion

• O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Believe
  • Long

• With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Forever

• In short what I like to say is that the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. It really has no bang in the Big Bang. It is a bangless theory, despite it's name.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Why

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Country

• I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

  

  Lynn Coady

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

  

  Ben Barnes

• I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • World
  • Success
  • Goals

• Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Time
  • Live

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Support
  • Confidence

• Women in New Jersey and across the country should be very proud of Rep. Rothman for leading this bipartisan effort to provide commonsense, compassionate care to rape survivors in the emergency room. When it comes to solving serious problems like unintended pregnancy, Americans want answers from their elected officials, not silence. I stand proudly with Congressman Rothman in calling on Speaker Hastert to allow a vote on his legislation without further delays.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Proud
  • New Jersey

• This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • People
  • Choices
  • Married

• You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mind
  • Stories
  • Given