Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Law
  • Sacrifice

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Something
  • More
  • Jazz

• I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eyes

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Generation

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Waiting
  • Lunch
  • Coat

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Growth
  • Enough
  • Economic

• I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Women

• I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Men
  • Home
  • Kind

• O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • May
  • Creation

• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Hours
  • Philosophical