Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

Ray Bradbury

• Choices
• Animal
• Laughing
• Cry
• Creatures
• Burden

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• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Political
  • Party

• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • News

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Me
  • Win
  • Competition

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation.

  

  David Perlmutter

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• As a player, I can tell them they don't want to rush to become a coach, because there is a lot that goes on. This is all something new to me. You can talk to a lot of the coaches... and they can tell you. Until you go through it, then you can understand what it's all about.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Player

• I'm going to take full advantage of my opportunities.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins

• The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Passion

• I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

  

  Cynthia Ozick

• Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Football

• Kids will tease you for just about anything.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Kids

• Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Today

• A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

  

  David Frum
  • People
  • Control
  • Choices

• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Speak

• The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Choices
  • Animal
  • Laughing