Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
-
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
-
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
-
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
-
We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
-
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
-
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
-
I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
-
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
-
On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
-
All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
-
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
-
We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
-
My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
-
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
-
'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.
-
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
-
I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
-
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
-
I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
-
When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.
-
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
-
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
-
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
