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
  • You
  • Feeling
  • 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

• Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Mom

• I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Sometimes

• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Earth
  • Balance
  • Attraction

• Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Inspiration

• 'Is he dead?' Irravel asked.'Depends what you mean by dead.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Balance
  • Fantasy