Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Facts are not interesting to me.

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Same

• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Change

• Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• I do appreciate every single dollar I earn.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Single

• The world absolutely needs your voice.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • World

• Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • True
  • Reality
  • Earth

• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Attention

• We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Money
  • Charity

• 'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • World
  • Heart
  • Waiting

• It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Drug

• I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Song

• In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Country
  • Political
  • Party

• A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Nature
  • Failure

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• Facts are not interesting to me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Interesting
  • Facts