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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
-
I have a great office.
-
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
-
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.
-
True friends stab you in the front.
-
You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not 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.
-
Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
-
O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
-
With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
-
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
-
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?
-
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.
-
When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
-
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
-
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
-
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
-
I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.
-
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
-
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.
