Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
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The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
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Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.
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But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
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The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.
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I feel a loyalty to my favorite artists, and to have my fans feel that, for me, is a special bond because I've been there for so long.
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
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Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.
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I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!
