Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Doing
  • Open

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Player
  • Basketball
  • Favorite

• All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Money
  • Focus
  • Constitution

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Road

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • People
  • Music

• The political left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

  

  Amos Oz
  • People
  • Political
  • Imagination

• I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • Work
  • Book

• When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • World
  • Different
  • Team

• The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • You
  • Fast
  • Pace

• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Childhood

• Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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