Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Ray Bradbury

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• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Style
  • Myself

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Universe

• I love the Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Beatles

• I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

  

  Jim Crace

• In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Work
  • Trying
  • May

• I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.

  

  Pauly D
  • Good
  • Single
  • Travel

• I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Joker

• You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • High
  • Alone
  • Poetry

• Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Beautiful
  • Ego

• If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes
  • Done

• When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

  

  Jay Asher
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Fans
  • Pictures
  • Communicate

• Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Good
  • Live
  • Done

• So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Mean

• A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Long
  • Purpose
  • Impart

• We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Equilibrium
  • Framework
  • Gaze

• Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Thinking