Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Ray Bradbury

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• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Learn

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I always liked spy stories.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Always
  • Liked
  • Spy

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• I've always been very tied to language.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Language
  • Very
  • Been

• You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Poor
  • Part

• Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

  

  Dan Coats
  • History
  • Action
  • Air

• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Professional
  • Wrestling

• As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Mind

• As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Writing

• Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

  

  John Tavener
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Teacher

• Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Process
  • Fiction
  • Metaphor

• Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

  

  Arvo Part
  • God
  • Silence

• Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Teacher
  • Fiction
  • Morality