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

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• 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
  • Way
  • You
  • Just

• 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

• 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

• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Suicide

• Gewönlich wird eine Entdeckung nicht auf den einfachsten, sondern auf einem komplizierten Wege gemacht; die einfachen Fälle zeigen sich erst später.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Die

• I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Money
  • History
  • Rest

• Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.

  

  Andrew Johnson

• I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons

• I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Band
  • Rock

• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Business
  • War
  • Peace

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Moral

• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • Book
  • Friends

• People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Lost

• 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