Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

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• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
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• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
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• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Today
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• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
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• And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Soul
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• And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Focus
  • Doubt

• Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

  

  Mary Douglas

• When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Hair

• Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  

  Bubba Watson

• The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish version. I watched the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' and I watched the Jessica Biel version and watched Jessica's performance.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Girl
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  • Alien

• You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

  

  Lowell Bergman
  • People
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• I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
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• I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

  

  David Christian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • History

• I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.

  

  Amanda Schull
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  • Friends

• My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it's funny, because both of my sisters - I have two sisters, and I'm the baby, but they all work hard. I'm not sure where I get it from, and I'm not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere... I like to work.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mother

• The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Sun
  • West
  • Horizon

• Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Rock

• If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Actors
  • Jobs
  • Talking

• My mom always told me to follow my bliss. And I remember specifically with my father, when I was out of school and not knowing how I'd get a job or make money - should I take some classes? What do I do? He said as long as I was working - to enrich myself in some way - that I was on the right path.

  

  Phillipa Soo
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• When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Trying