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

• Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Question
  • Books
  • Wonderful

• 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

• If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

  

  William Greider
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Life
  • Reason

• You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Feelings

• Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Die

• Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Hide
  • Cupcakes
  • Pantry

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Needs
  • Missing