Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

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• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Like
  • Missing

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • You
  • Me
  • Means

• I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Opposition
  • Civil
  • Disobedience

• All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

  

  Randal Cremer
  • People
  • War
  • Control

• While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fashion
  • Said
  • Take

• I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Want
  • Day
  • President

• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Voice
  • Humble
  • Artists

• 'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

  

  Alexander the Great

• When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore

  

  Edward Lear
  • Great
  • Long
  • Silence

• Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War
  • True
  • Science

• Those who would retain his services should confine him to subjects better suited…to his sniggering, puerile, defamatory and cruelly limited talents.

  

  Conrad Black

• What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • America
  • Today
  • Parents

• I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

  

  Kali Uchis

• The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Question
  • Space
  • Destiny

• As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

  

  Connie Francis
  • Time
  • History
  • Study

• We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Operating system

• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Up

• Stonewall Jackson was master of all he surveyed. Two Union forces were withdrawing from his front. There was a certain beautiful symmetry to it. The campaign, which started with a single enemy army pursuing Jackson southward through the valley, would end with two beaten Union armies withdrawing from him in a northerly direction. A week later, Jackson advised his mapmaker, Hotchkiss, to 'never take counsel of your fears.' A person who followed such advice would be doomed to a short life.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.

  

  Burton Richter
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

  

  Ray Bradbury