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

• Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Different
  • Man
  • Rest

• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Court
  • Just Because

• 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

• Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

  

  Plutarch
  • Change
  • Spirit
  • Ambition

• All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen.

  

  Norma Fox Mazer
  • Conversation
  • Noises
  • Inane

• 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

• It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Wonder
  • Philosopher

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Boring
  • Philosopher