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

• Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Easy
  • Rumor
  • Slander

• Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • Time
  • True
  • Father

• But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!

  

  Edmund Vance Cooke
  • Road
  • Prayer
  • Goal

• If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • World
  • Would Be
  • Utopia

• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  

  Ali Velshi
  • Audience
  • News
  • Reacting

• 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