Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

Ray Bradbury

• Philosophy
• Lying
• Brilliant
• Melancholy
• Sociology

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• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, 'Wow, this is such a banger.' I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Beginning
  • Car
  • Listening

• We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Information

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Point
  • Breaking
  • No Point

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • You
  • Imagine
  • Something

• I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Wear
  • Noise

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Food
  • Never
  • Sick

• No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Men
  • Party
  • Car

• I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Kids
  • House

• Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heaven

• I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Disability

• It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Respect
  • Vocation
  • Deserves

• It was a pretty awesome fight, and I don't think that any normal team can do that. It takes a team like what we've got.

  

  Chad Knaus
  • Team
  • Fight
  • Awesome

• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Cutting

• I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

  

  Kam Williams
  • Future

• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Philosophy
  • Lying
  • Brilliant