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 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
  • Family

• 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

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

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People

• 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

• 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

• Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

  

  Arnold Newman
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

  

  Kyla Reid

• My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

  

  Anne F. Beiler
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question
  • Safe
  • Cowardice

• Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Speak
  • Tomorrow

• I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• 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