Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

Ray Bradbury

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • You
  • Respect
  • Me

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Thought
  • Seen
  • Ghosts

• My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • View
  • Serve
  • Competitive

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance

• Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Time
  • Long

• In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mentor

• One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Men
  • Book
  • Reading

• I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Music
  • Country
  • Help

• You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Boy
  • Weird

• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • War
  • Society

• What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Real
  • Age