Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

Ray Bradbury

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• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Me

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • Deep

• It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Hazards
  • Fullness

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fly

• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • God
  • Medicine

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Child
  • Stars

• But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Italian

• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Morning
  • Listening
  • Summer

• Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.

  

  Edy Ganem

• I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Children

• The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Enough

• Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Father