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

• I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Trying
  • Attention

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

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Professional
  • Wrestling

• People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Team

• For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Feeling

• We're continually poring over plans, and the decision is difficult, but it's definitely coming soon. The idea with Barr is not bad and might convince me to take your advice, if B. really does get involved.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Bad
  • Decision
  • Advice

• I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • God
  • Wish

• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Morality

• This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Independent
  • Observation
  • Reaction

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Teacher
  • Fiction
  • Morality