Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.Ray Bradbury
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco -
In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
Dan Coats -
Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction -
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
Upton Sinclair -
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
Brian Tracy -
You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126
E. Lockhart
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Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
Marianne Williamson -
This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
Uri Orbach -
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
R. M. Williams -
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf -
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.
William Shakespeare
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I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.
Bill Frisell -
If Declan Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.
George Hook -
Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
Umar -
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
Etgar Keret -
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl -
I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.
Denzel Whitaker
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
Michael Morpurgo -
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
Ray Bradbury