Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

Ray Bradbury

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• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Source
  • Flow

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Said
  • Piano

• I can't die but once.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Die
  • Once

• A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Always
  • White
  • WIld

• I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Think
  • Year
  • Useful

• Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.

  

  J. August Richards
  • School
  • Character
  • Yourself

• I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Song
  • Small
  • Wind

• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Words
  • Italian

• I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Time
  • Nice

• If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Live

• The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Future
  • Stop

• The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Done
  • Wisdom

• If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

  

  Elon Musk

• If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.

  

  Adrienne von Speyr
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Opt

• I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Men
  • Long
  • Business

• Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Trying
  • Control

• The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

  

  Ray Bradbury