Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

Ray Bradbury

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• Answers
• Drink
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• Gin

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Money
  • Day
  • Cooking

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trying
  • First
  • Example

• I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Really
  • Forests

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Confront

• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Substitute

• Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Want
  • Period
  • Ends

• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fall
  • Doubt
  • Chance

• There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Roles

• The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• We talkin' bout practice?

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Practice

• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • John Kerry
  • Windsurfing
  • Dilettante

• Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Men
  • Why
  • Decision

• I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

  

  David Rees
  • Drink
  • Sweat
  • Tastes

• There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.

  

  Winston Grime
  • Loss
  • Loneliness
  • Wound

• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hell
  • Answers
  • Drink