Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

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• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • School
  • American
  • High

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I always wanted to be a leading man!

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Always
  • Leading

• We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Hope

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• Acting takes so much energy.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Energy

• Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Picture

• In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Children
  • Running

• Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

  

  Charles Best
  • Country

• But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Time
  • Great

• I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

  

  Ed Gass-Donnelly
  • Memory
  • Photograph
  • Frozen

• I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Dad

• So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading