Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

  

  M. Ward
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Me

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Running
  • Alone

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • American
  • Age
  • Want

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Give
  • Peaceful

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

  

  Kim Wilde
  • World
  • Tears

• The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Understanding
  • Road

• Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • Art

• Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • She
  • Opportunity

• On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Future
  • Past

• None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • World
  • Pain
  • Joy

• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Justice
  • Religion
  • Ignorance

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

  

  Charles Ives
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Culture