Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Ray Bradbury

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• Character
• Running
• Excitement

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• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Now
  • Authority

• If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Know
  • Support

• I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Future
  • Look
  • Where

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Think

• Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Future
  • Know

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• I did most of my schooling in Miami.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Most
  • Did
  • Miami

• In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Americans
  • Taxes

• I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• I'm not a very typical singer.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Very
  • Singer
  • Typical

• I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience wanted, down to editing, script and casting, he would turn to her first. She was his partner.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • She
  • Partner

• 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

  

  James Frain
  • Good
  • Character
  • Book

• We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Attention

• There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Bible

• My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Running