Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.

Ray Bradbury

• Emotional
• Dying
• Certain
• Faces
• Cry
• Empty
• Newspapers

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Face
  • Exciting
  • Brand

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Logic

• It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • You
  • Needs
  • Said

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Lovely

• I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Done
  • Think
  • Science

• Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Words

• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Imagination

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Believe
  • True
  • English

• Member for Islwyn was going to have a single currency willy-nilly. He has already made up his mind. The argument that he uses is that, if others have it, we must. That is an argument for a flock of sheep, not for people who are sent here to analyse the problem and to use our minds and our reason to say which course we should follow.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • Work
  • Mother

• Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

  

  Estelle
  • Artist
  • Scared
  • Authentically

• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Time
  • Important
  • Enough

• A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Kind
  • Certain
  • Eden

• Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • World
  • Death
  • Faces

• And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Emotional
  • Dying
  • Certain