Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. He held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

Ray Bradbury

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• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Social
  • Scientist
  • Novelist

• Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Reality
  • Running

• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Feeding

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Great
  • Grandfather
  • Valley

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• ECONOMICS COCKTAILS. Ingredients: Austrian, Behaviouralist, Classical, Developmentalist, Institutionalist, Keynesian, Marxist, Neoclassical and Schumpeterian. ... Health warning: On no account drink only one ingredient – liable to lead to tunnel vision, arrogance and possibly brain death.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Death
  • Health
  • Brain

• The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society

• A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • She
  • Smile

• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• I have fun just about everywhere I go.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Fun

• If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.

  

  Donald Trump
  • President
  • Interest
  • Special

• If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.

  

  Kygo
  • Life
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.

  

  Keerthy Suresh

• I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People

• Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Player

• I stress character, character, character.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Character
  • Stress

• Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Goal

• The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.

  

  Hank Green
  • Person
  • Fame
  • April

• God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

  

  Karen Walker
  • Giving
  • Compassion
  • Ability

• Every day I left that place I felt a little bit dirty about it.

  

  Kevin Talley Chimaira
  • Place
  • Dirty

• There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. He held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

  

  Ray Bradbury