Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

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• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Streets
  • Mama

• My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Prison

• In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Try
  • Just

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Everything

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Society

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I stuck my dick in this game like a rapist. They call me 'Slim Roethlisberger'!

  

  Eminem
  • Game

• I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Risk

• Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Children
  • Science
  • Church

• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Wonder
  • Helping
  • Sorry

• The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Relationship

• If you don't have a sense of adventure in this job, then you're not going to do very well. You have to be prepared for the unexpected, and that's one of the reasons why you really, really, really have to trust the people you're going to work with because you don't know what's on the other end.

  

  Cush Jumbo
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

  

  Ray Bradbury