Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Progress

• I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Money

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Law

• Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Want
  • Period
  • Ends

• It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Heroes
  • Difficulties
  • Surmounting

• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Great
  • Reading

• I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Water
  • Deserve
  • Granddaughter

• I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Think
  • Practice
  • Name

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Attention
  • Indifference

• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Devil
  • Hell

• I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hell