Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

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

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• 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

• Some people kind of are afraid of me.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People

• 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 think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Country

• When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Real
  • Remember

• I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Thinking
  • Goal
  • Journey

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Needs
  • Missing