Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Ray Bradbury

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Climb

• The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• I always remember liking school.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • School
  • Remember
  • Always

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Passion

• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Food
  • Favorite
  • Take

• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  

  Major Owens
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • End

• I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • World
  • School
  • High

• I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • She
  • Dream

• Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • People
  • World
  • Warrior

• In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Band

• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Success

• I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Reading
  • Door

• No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

  

  John Heywood
  • Horse

• Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Secret
  • Bridges
  • Houses

• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Future
  • Easy
  • Hell