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

• When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beach

• 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

• My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

  

  Mike Posner
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Player

• Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Hold
  • Adventurous
  • Self-pity

• I love being part of the team.

  

  Jacqueline McKenzie
  • Team

• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

  

  Anna Freud
  • Space
  • Forest

• 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