Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Ray Bradbury

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• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Always
  • Artist
  • Idea

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Believe
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• My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Coward

• At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Morning

• In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Sports

• Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Long

• Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Legacy

• Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People

• All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • World
  • Culture

• Trump has a lot of contacts in the world of charity because he rents out ballrooms, hotel ballrooms, the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to charities. Charities are often the ones that rent out these ballrooms for big events.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • World
  • Trump
  • Charity

• I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • People
  • Great
  • Air

• My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Walking

• Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

  

  James Lee Burke
  • Work
  • Rejection

• One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

  

  Matthew Davis
  • Movie
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• I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

  

  Jane Green
  • Children
  • Small
  • Decision

• It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Great
  • Character
  • Movie

• There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • American

• The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

  

  Edward Ball
  • People
  • Slavery
  • Fence

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

  

  Barry McDonald
  • Perform
  • Trained
  • Learner

• My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

  

  Ray Bradbury