Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Ray Bradbury

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• We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • World
  • Football
  • Place

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Find

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

  

  Candice Olson
  • Thought
  • Wall
  • Blue

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Reality

• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Painting

• I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Live
  • Book

• My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Guy
  • House
  • Dad

• I think that Carrie is such an icon, not just as someone who played Princess Leia, but someone who was groundbreaking in that she was OK with being honest - brutally so, unapologetically so.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • She
  • Princess

• We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Rain

• It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Life

• I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

  

  Markus Zusak

• Touring is a tough business.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • Business

• My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Popular

• If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

  

  Johnnie Cochran
  • World
  • Red

• The cold war is over; Japan won.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • War
  • Cold

• He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

  

  Ray Bradbury