Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing is unfilmable.
Salman Rushdie
-
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
Imelda Marcos
-
Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton
-
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
Damien Rice
-
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
-
We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
Manal al-Sharif
-
What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
Barry McGuigan
-
It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
Tabatha Coffey
-
There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
Nathaniel Rateliff
-
The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
Parker Young
-
ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
Naval Ravikant
-
Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
Dakota Fanning
-
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams
-
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
Carly Fiorina
-
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson
-
'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
Ai Weiwei
-
He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.
Laurence Sterne
-
My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government as vigorously as I possibly can.
Arthur Scargill
-
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
-
I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
-
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
Ishmael Reed
-
I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
Lao Tzu
-
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
Ray Bradbury