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

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• 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

• I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Family
  • Drawing

• 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

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Good
  • Father
  • Fear

• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Together

• Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.

  

  Fabio Novembre
  • Ideas
  • Sex
  • Two

• Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • Dying
  • Living

• 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