Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

Ray Bradbury

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
  • Take

• We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Know
  • Laugh

• My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Myself

• 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Home
  • Hair
  • Cooking

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Happy
  • Movie
  • Nice

• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Reading
  • Certain
  • Crisis

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • She

• I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.

  

  Bono U2
  • Irish

• When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Men
  • Small
  • Sun

• There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • History

• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Hate

• The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Important

• You have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.

  

  Philipp Meyer

• The possibilities that come with thinking about the camera as a portal into the realm of information and services are attractive not only to Snap but also to every other big player in the tech world. Facebook, for instance, has slowly been enhancing the visual capabilities of its Messenger.

  

  Om Malik
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Player

• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Children
  • Blow