Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
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Although he was over the hill when I first saw him, I could visualize how good he must have been. Joe DiMaggio was the best all-around ballplayer I ever saw.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
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Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
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You gotta love and learn and learn to live.
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The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
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Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.
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We're not ready to put out the Java2 version yet, so we'll make the JDK 1.18 offering something to deploy in the interim.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.
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And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.
