Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

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• If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Myself

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Charity
  • Monday

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Learn
  • Understand
  • Curiosity

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Never
  • Better
  • Experiment

• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Hate
  • First Amendment

• The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Pain
  • Sibling

• We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

  

  David Cone
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Dad

• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Wife
  • Flying

• I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Mom

• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People

• When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh
  • People

• I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Mind
  • School
  • College

• I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Job
  • Ego

• You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Dream

• People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica

• If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

  

  El Anatsui
  • Charge
  • Touching
  • Connects

• It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Legacy
  • Lifetime
  • Touching