Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Ray Bradbury

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• Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Give
  • Believer
  • Comeback

• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Style
  • Everyone
  • Extremist

• I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Maybe

• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Business
  • New York

• I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Think
  • Want
  • Death

• It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Want

• I will miss the association with the players and coaches. It has been a great ride.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Great
  • Will
  • Ride

• Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

  

  James Brown
  • Respect
  • Thankful

• The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to perform it. It just kind of became therapy for me. I had just gotten through a break-up and I was talking about it a lot.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Kind

• I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • People
  • Ambition
  • Talking

• The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Audience
  • Response
  • Crucial

• A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Career
  • Shorter

• It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Numbers

• Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wonder
  • River
  • Landscape

• I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Film

• Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Chances

• I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Boring
  • Philosopher