Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

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• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Know
  • Environment

• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Time
  • Place
  • Interested

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Nothing
  • Canada
  • Council

• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feel
  • Guilty
  • Owning

• A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Long
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Men
  • Live
  • Family

• A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Mind
  • Passion

• He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Confidence

• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Nature
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

  

  Ellen Key
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I'm just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That's my motivation; that's what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • motivation

• The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

  

  Philippe Falardeau

• As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

  

  Kevin Pollak
  • Up
  • Good

• The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • Free
  • Air
  • Chinese

• The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • World
  • Children
  • Intelligent

• Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

  

  John David Washington
  • Football

• I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

  

  Jim Gray
  • May

• I worked for a breakfast catering company on commercial shoots, which meant getting up at 3 or 4 A.M. and loading up your car with a bunch of food and driving out to some set in Santa Clarita and making breakfast for a bunch of people.

  

  Matt Letscher
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Work
  • Muse