Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

Ray Bradbury

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Italian

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Light
  • Me

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Broken

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • You
  • Way
  • Just

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Give
  • Peaceful

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • High
  • Measure
  • Fraud

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Differences
  • Celebrate

• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Suicide

• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Positive

• Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Justice
  • Struggle

• I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to sleep, I can get focused on what happened during the day, pull that into perspective, and that'll make my sleep a little more peaceful.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Perspective

• There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Support
  • Never
  • Finding

• I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Lost
  • Terrible