Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

All education is self-discovery.

Ray Bradbury

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • May
  • Change

• I've sung in the shower for years.

  

  Chris Pine

• I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Child
  • I Want
  • I

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

  

  Lily King
  • Words
  • Hand
  • Brain

• From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

  

  Mabel Seeley
  • Work
  • Writing

• At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Together
  • Law
  • Christian

• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • Summer
  • Solitude
  • Burning

• The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • God
  • Artist
  • Idiot

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Drawing
  • Discovery
  • Lessons

• All education is self-discovery.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Discovery