Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

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• I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Interested
  • Russia

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Commitment

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Bad
  • Very
  • Egypt

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • America
  • Feel

• And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Country
  • Revolution

• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • May
  • Business
  • Beginning

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fire

• Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Men

• America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Law

• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Life
  • Chinese
  • Stock

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

  

  E. B. White
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Kindness

• For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Life
  • Human
  • Personal

• If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Mankind

• The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Purpose
  • Facts
  • Fiction