Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

Ray Bradbury

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• And I think I have a distinct voice.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Think
  • Voice
  • I Think

• Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Health
  • Boundaries
  • Over

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Job
  • High

• Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Business
  • Night

• I understand your anger and outrage, I understand your pain. And yet in the self-interest of Gujarat, and to ensure that we don’t jeopardize the future of Gujarat, that Gujarat doesn’t get a blot on its face or carry a stigma connected with these times all the 5 crore Gujaratis need to keep calm and exercise self-restraint.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Future
  • Pain
  • Exercise

• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Identity

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

  

  Leos Carax

• I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

  

  David Hallberg
  • Important
  • Prince

• We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

  

  Jesse Schell
  • Game

• The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also to ensure that they get it by means of fair trial, and that means a fair trial for the defense as well as the prosecution.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Guilty

• If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Rain