Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Right

• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Wish

• Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moving

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She
  • Girl
  • Alone

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • May
  • Faith

• In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Alone
  • Wise

• This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Mad

• Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Free
  • Needs
  • Gender

• 'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • May
  • Truth
  • Past

• Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Ignorance
  • Adventure

• If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Ignorance