Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Ray Bradbury

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• Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Memories
  • Show
  • Everyone

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• Health is never going to go out of fashion.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Health
  • Fashion
  • Never

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Talk

• One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Think
  • Watching

• 'I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strong
  • Learning
  • Positive

• I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

• When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it's more about you and the mood you convey.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Justice
  • Weird
  • Mood

• Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Justice
  • Mistake

• History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • History

• Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Alcohol

• I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

  

  Aerin Lauder

• The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Happy

• I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Happy
  • Husband

• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  

  Bryan White
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Satisfied

• You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • You
  • Change
  • Pain

• A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Human Beings

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Imagination
  • Competition
  • Blessed

• People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

  

  Ray Bradbury