Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

Ray Bradbury

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• Lying
• Elevators
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• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Want
  • Drug
  • Tell

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Music
  • Father

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Leadership
  • Throne
  • Bench

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave

• I’ve found opposition to my teaching because I said it’s not the strength which does it, it’s a rhythm. You don’t need huge muscles great strength. In fact, if you have that and misuse it, you’re going to damage the material. It’s absurd. It’s a rhythmical flow of an idea, whichever sex you are.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Great
  • Sex

• There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Game
  • Stop
  • Passion

• The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • Value

• Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

  

  Bernice King
  • Style

• It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

  

  Kygo

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  

  David Korten
  • Money

• The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

  

  Billy Higgins
  • People
  • History

• I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Important
  • Fun

• I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Live
  • Home
  • City

• I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Waiting

• Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

  

  Travis Beacham
  • Love
  • Age
  • Fighting

• It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Romantic

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Time

• I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

  

  Carol Kane

• Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Waiting
  • Lying
  • Elevators