Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

Ray Bradbury

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• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Like
  • Laugh

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Music
  • Come

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Drinking
  • Been
  • Using

• 'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Experience

• The commentariat denounced Trump’s immigration policies, then quickly returned to saying he had no policies at all. It was as if JFK had said we were going to the moon and the entire media shouted back, 'Okay, but what’s your policy on going to the moon.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Trump
  • Moon
  • Immigration

• The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Believe

• I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Great
  • She
  • Relationship

• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Real

• I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Good
  • Serious

• I was very, very naughty in school.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • School
  • Naughty

• In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Care

• Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Up
  • Real
  • Movie

• His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Dark
  • Library