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

• All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Intelligent
  • Propaganda
  • Accommodate

• If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

  

  David Paradine Frost
  • People
  • Up
  • Gun

• It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Work
  • Great
  • Country

• We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Up
  • Live
  • Movie

• The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Choices
  • Whole

• 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