Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
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Jury - A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
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When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.
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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
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The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
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I need to be on the same page as the director.
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
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When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.
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Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.
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I'm 5 foot, 3 inches. Even if I hit you, I'm probably not going to knock you down.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
