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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• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• Form follows beauty.

  

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• I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

  

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• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

  

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• I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.

  

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  

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  • Air
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• 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