Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • College
  • Better

• CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Company
  • Name

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Think

• Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • Star
  • Look

• Be larger than your task.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Task
  • Your
  • Larger

• To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reading

• I had a fashion designer tell me that when I wear a dress of his, it sells out across the country because Jewish girls ‘look to me,’ and Jewish girls are the ones that buy expensive dresses. It made me sad, because I want to be an influence in ways other than by a pretty dress.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Fashion

• That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • School

• When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Trying
  • Model

• As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Important
  • Innovation

• I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Nature

• I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • World
  • Great

• The first time I really had an influence on a show was during 'Ragtime.' It's still the most magical show that I've ever done.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Time
  • Done

• When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

  

  Janet Flanner
  • War

• I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Three

• Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Fight
  • Army
  • Enemies

• When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Up
  • Graffiti
  • Trash

• You know, every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Believe
  • Vampire
  • Flames

• When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • Music
  • Home
  • American

• A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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