Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • House
  • White
  • White House

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Show

• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • World

• You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.

  

  James Madison
  • Country
  • Free
  • Sad

• Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • School
  • America
  • High

• Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Real
  • History
  • True

• On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Real

• If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Money
  • You
  • Planning

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Fire
  • Police
  • Library

• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  

  Dee Brown
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Library

• ... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Library