Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

Ray Bradbury

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • You
  • Liberty

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • You
  • Others
  • Them

• I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Bike

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Success
  • Man

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Unknown

• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Truth

• All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Age

• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  

  Bjork
  • Up

• The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Emotional

• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Talk

• The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Legacy

• Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Song

• Our Saxon ancestors may have been a rude and hardy race, but they did not live in an age of materialism as we do.

  

  Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
  • Race
  • Ancestors
  • Materialism

• Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • High
  • Future
  • Technology

• In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Dream
  • Technology
  • Problem