Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Work
  • Love
  • Woman

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Fight

• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Determination

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Improvement

• You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Day
  • Special

• I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Black
  • Fear

• Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Dance

• If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Band

• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Smart
  • Dumb
  • Complain

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

  

  Billie Burke
  • Art

• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Up
  • Great
  • Love

• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
  • Winner

• I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Achieve
  • Perfection
  • State

• Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Ghost