Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

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• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Voice

• I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • Politics
  • Go

• I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

  

  Pat Cash
  • Winning
  • More
  • Very

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Feel

• As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Arabic

• Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Essence
  • Spirituality
  • Month

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Music
  • Different
  • Myself

• If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Alone
  • Conversation
  • Oneself

• We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Experience
  • Something
  • Calendar

• I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

  

  Wesley Snipes
  • Drug
  • Criminals
  • Stereotype

• The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Race
  • Mars
  • Superiors

• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • See
  • Feet
  • Relaxed

• Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Ideas
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  • Metaphor