Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

Ray Bradbury

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Sleep
  • I Can
  • Luxury

• I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Done
  • Should
  • Information

• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Fruit

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • World
  • Important
  • Better

• I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Play
  • Always
  • Lady

• I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sweet
  • Try
  • Fat

• By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Painting
  • Mood

• And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought,Combing with lifted arms her golden hair,Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night;And there was one who dreamed of a sudden deathAs she blew out her light.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • She
  • Night
  • Black

• There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • World
  • Soul
  • Single

• Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

  

  Brady Corbet
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I was influenced a lot by my visits to hostels with my mother when I was younger. I learned a lot from it, more so now that I did at the time. My mother used her position very well to help other people, as does my father, and I hope to do the same.

  

  Prince William
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Wait

• The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Fun

• One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

  

  Mary Quant

• He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

  

  Ray Bradbury