Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

Ray Bradbury

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Lose
  • Taste

• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Man
  • Differences
  • Selfish

• I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • American
  • Freedom

• Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • God
  • Same
  • Nothing

• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Laws
  • Legal
  • Houses

• It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Trying
  • Eye

• If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Child
  • Slavery
  • Slaves

• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Today
  • Environment
  • Search

• By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nature
  • Respect
  • Aspect

• No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Simple
  • Holocaust

• But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Done
  • Singing

• Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Death
  • Chaos

• You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Family
  • Together
  • Marriage

• So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • People
  • Violence
  • Sex

• No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

  

  Daryl Gates
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Good
  • Mind

• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • God
  • Eternal

• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Color

• Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Waiting
  • Shadow
  • Mirrors