Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Ray Bradbury

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Up
  • Change
  • Will

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• I enjoyed being anonymous.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Being
  • Enjoyed
  • Anonymous

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Up

• I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Done

• Prosperity makes few friends.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Friends

• A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Party

• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Truth

• I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'

  

  Kristen Connolly
  • School
  • Drama

• I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

  

  Brian Kernighan

• The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

  

  Ken Wilber
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Water

• Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • School
  • High
  • College

• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • People
  • Enemy
  • Fool

• I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

  

  Asafa Powell
  • King

• Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

  

  Johann Most
  • Country
  • America
  • Present

• As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Study

• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  

  Will Self
  • Individual
  • Confused
  • Conflict

• Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Confused
  • Cry
  • Dismayed