Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Ray Bradbury

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• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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  • Late

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
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  • Mind

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
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• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Man

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Important
  • Better
  • Craft

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Just
  • Mistaken
  • Egotism

• Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Woman
  • Confidence
  • Beauty

• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Strong
  • Eyes

• We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Community
  • Rest

• This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Simple

• The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • War
  • Past

• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Quality
  • Stupid
  • Clever

• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

  

  Lynne Reid Banks
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Children

• We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Bad
  • Basketball
  • Playing

• Frewen and his colleague Ruth Lanius found that the more people were out of touch with their feelings, the less activity they had in the self-sensing areas of the brain. Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Trouble
  • Frustration

• I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Men
  • Children
  • Science

• The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Air