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
  • Band

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

  

  David Miliband

• I know who I am.

  

  Denise Crosby

• I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

  

  Jim Crace

• If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

  

  Ami Bera
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Soul
  • Masters
  • Fundamental

• It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Confidence
  • Actor
  • Set

• I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Creates
  • Clothing
  • Mystical

• Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Tree
  • Branches

• All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• 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