Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
-
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
-
I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
-
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
-
Downloading songs is not good.
-
As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
-
We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
-
I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
-
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
-
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
-
From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
-
I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
-
Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
-
I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
-
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
-
Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
-
A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
-
This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
-
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
-
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
-
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
-
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
-
Praise from an enemy smells of craft.
-
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
