Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Ray Bradbury

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• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Important
  • Together
  • Party

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Dark
  • Better
  • Demons

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Miracle

• Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Interesting

• His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Age

• That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Why

• During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Religious

• Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

  

  Emma McLaughlin
  • Time
  • Different
  • College

• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • World
  • Men
  • Poverty

• I'm not a homophobic.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Homophobic

• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Law

• Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Together