Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Ray Bradbury

• Needs
• Missing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• Reality is a sliding door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Sliding

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Father

• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • People
  • Forever

• I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Challenge

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Help
  • Society

• I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Work

• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  

  Brock Yates

• I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Decision
  • Ignore

• Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Stop

• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • True
  • Nature

• People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Needs

• I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Meaningful

• Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!

  

  Bob Costas
  • Deep

• We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Needs
  • Missing