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.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I was rubbish at school.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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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.
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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.
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People want you to fail.
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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.
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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.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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You give the money where you want it.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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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.
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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.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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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.
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There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
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I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
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He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.
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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.
