Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Ray Bradbury

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.

  

  Larry David
  • Movie

• Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?

  

  DJ Khaled

• My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Time
  • Movie

• You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Help
  • Future
  • Past

• I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • World
  • Men

• Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

  

  Lemn Sissay
  • Technology

• I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Important
  • Age
  • Parents

• I admire my father greatly.

  

  Kojo Annan
  • Father

• I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

  

  John Grisham

• I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

  

  Leon Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've always been kind of a voyeur.

  

  Maya Hawke

• 'We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.'

  

  Peter Akinola
  • God
  • Live
  • Political

• What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Moments

• Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

  

  Phillips Brooks

• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Mistake
  • Living
  • Circumstances

• I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

  

  Claude Monet
  • True
  • Public
  • Mediocre

• I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Clay Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Attention
  • Destroying
  • Column

• We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

  

  Ray Bradbury