Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Think
  • Want
  • Effort

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • Crazy
  • Poverty

• Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Conversation

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Man
  • Die

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• 'Torches' opened a lot of doors. Ultimately, it turned into an experience to be reckoned with.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Experience

• I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • People

• I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Sometimes
  • Because
  • Compliments

• My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Great
  • Here
  • Refugee

• The way I see it, an umpire must be perfect on the first day of the season and then get better every day.

  

  Nestor Chylak
  • Perfect

• What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Sometimes