Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

  

  Jack Black
  • World
  • Guy
  • Man

• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Always

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Privilege

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Ice

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Smile

• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Money
  • She
  • Friends

• When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Peace
  • Question

• The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Time
  • Done
  • Simple

• I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

  

  Maria Cornejo

• Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hockey

• The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Prayer
  • Asana

• The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

  

  Plato
  • Balance
  • Pleasure
  • Pains

• I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.

  

  Erin Cressida Wilson
  • People
  • Fantasy
  • Frustration

• Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Balance
  • Fantasy