Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Ray Bradbury

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• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Kind
  • Style
  • Feel

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Age
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • America
  • Rock

• The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decision are knowledge and the amazing brainpower God gave human beings when he created us. That's certainly true for deciding our best response to any risk we ever face.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • True
  • Knowledge

• What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Live
  • Purpose
  • Greatness

• When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Live
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • War
  • Wisdom
  • Marriage

• In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • May
  • City
  • Deep

• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

  

  James Cameron
  • People

• I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.

  

  Om Malik
  • Art

• I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times, I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

  

  Don Drysdale
  • Up

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Fear

• Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

  

  Georg Solti
  • Music
  • Death

• I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • Choices
  • Anxiety

• Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

  

  Ray Bradbury