Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Ray Bradbury

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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Fear
  • Struggle

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Different
  • May
  • Government

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Important
  • Funny

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
  • Think
  • Change

• Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • First
  • Cuba

• I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Free
  • First
  • Ever

• It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

  

  Patina Miller
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • College

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Kid

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Business
  • Food
  • Cooking

• What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

  

  Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Different
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'

  

  Eric Andre
  • Energy
  • Crazy

• A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Dark

• ...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

  

  Brock Chisholm
  • Truth
  • Extension
  • Pretense

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing