Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Ray Bradbury

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Career

• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

  Sampha
  • World
  • School
  • Cool

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sun

• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wall
  • Promise
  • Security

• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Reading

• Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Health
  • Nothing
  • Medicine

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Mormonism, it seems to me, is-objectively-just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Stupid

• So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

  

  Bob Taft
  • World
  • Education
  • Quality

• Radiant with ardour divine! Beacons of Hope ye appear! Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Good
  • Work
  • Free

• The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Purpose
  • Communication

• They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Educate

• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Taken