Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

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• Fast learners win.

  

  Eric Schmidt

• I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

  

  Johnny Bench

• I think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Running
  • Player

• You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Mean
  • Marriage

• Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Mood

• Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Soul
  • Die
  • Body

• Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sorry

• Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• People want to see realism in action now.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • People
  • Want
  • Action

• I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Wonder

• The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Power
  • Revolution
  • Modern

• If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Treat

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

  

  Kabir
  • People
  • God
  • Water

• You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)

  

  Tad Williams
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Albums

• Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Generals
  • Scrupulous

• But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Nephew
  • Vanish
  • Snark

• TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • True
  • Dream
  • Goal

• When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Reached
  • Hoped
  • Inside Me

• Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Boys
  • Pockets
  • Magician