Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Ray Bradbury

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Success
  • Day
  • Understanding

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Commitment
  • Security

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Weapons
  • Steps

• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Long
  • Television
  • Blessing

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Money
  • Single

• Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • She

• Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Feeling
  • Celebration

• I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • She
  • Mom

• I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Singing

• If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

  

  Jason Day
  • Believe

• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Time

• In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I don't really shout that much.

  

  Bill O'Reilly

• You know what no one tells you about driving a truck? You are driving a truck. There are only side mirrors, and it does not handle like a Prius.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Driving
  • Truck

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Silence

• ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Space