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

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• 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
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• 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
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• 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
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• 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
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Stop
  • Woman
  • First

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• 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
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.

  

  Parker Young
  • Challenge
  • Easy
  • Looking

• 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
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Laws

• 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
  • People
  • Walking
  • New York

• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Learning
  • Like
  • Baseball

• I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

  

  James Allen
  • Single
  • Purpose

• One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Hope

• I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• 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
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Way