Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Movie
  • See

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Song
  • Professional

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Always
  • Industry
  • Popularity

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Great
  • Healing

• Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

  

  Jane Smiley

• Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

  

  Frank Reynolds

• In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Work
  • Society
  • Practice

• I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • School
  • Why
  • Education

• Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Great

• As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Design
  • Tiger

• I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

  

  Jim Diamond
  • Time
  • Suffering
  • Abuse

• I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

  

  Colin Firth

• Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Chess

• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • History

• If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Philosophy
  • Reverence

• You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

  

  Ray Bradbury