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

• Hell
• Answers
• Drink
• Failing
• 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
  • Roles
  • Interested

• 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

• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Ambition
  • Weakness

• Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Fearless
  • Housewife
  • Lain

• People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, it’s a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!

  

  Ric Flair
  • People
  • Different
  • Sometimes

• Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Right
  • Individual

• Good feelings are fragile, with me love doesn’t last. Love for a man doesn’t last, not even love for a child, it soon gets a hole in it. You look in the hole and you see the nebula of good intentions mixed up with the nebula of bad.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Intentions

• 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