Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Ray Bradbury

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Government
  • Socialism

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Writing

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • You
  • Health
  • Assumptions

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

  

  Randy Owen
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Look
  • Down
  • Canada

• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Alien

• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Career
  • Death
  • Heaven

• There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country
  • Choices

• So things have gradually and gradually gotten worse and worse until the country is absolutely on the rocks now, and the people are suffering. And this is our hope, because so many people are suffering, have been persecuted and have been told 'Get into line, or else', and they know what 'or else' means.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

  

  David L. Ulin
  • Book
  • Waiting
  • Language

• In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Order