Ray Bradbury Zitate auf Englisch

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Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. Jamais Cascio

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Mason Cooley

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

Jeffrey Kluger

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Curtis Sittenfeld

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

Clifford D. Simak

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley

Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

Alex Pareene

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Susie Bright

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

W. E. B. Du Bois

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Terry Southern

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

Tavi Gevinson

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

Eric Liu

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

Junot Diaz

The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.

Valerie Plame

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Carl Hiaasen

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

Lois Lowry

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

David Means

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Roger Angell

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

Dave Pelzer

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

Dana Fox

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Philipp Meyer

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Nate Silver

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

John Searles

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

Robert E. Howard

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Irene Peter

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Elbert Hubbard

Villains are meant to be hated.

Johanna Lindsey

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

Andre Aciman

Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

Patrick Lencioni

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Melissa Rosenberg

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Mason Cooley