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

• In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

  

  William Carey
  • Men
  • Age
  • Ignorance

• It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• FinCEN directs financial institutions to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) to inform law enforcement of certain types of cyber-enabled crime. As the agency charged with protecting the United States from financial crime, FinCEN's guidance does not deem financial institutions who process such transactions to be involved in a criminal activity.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Law
  • Financial

• Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.

  

  John Buchan
  • Long
  • Failure

• 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