Ray Bradbury Quotes

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

I think a lot of people don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don't. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. But I'm happier this way - it's a good thing for me.

I still think people like to hear from someone's heart and how they really feel than the old political rhetoric trying to not say the wrong thing because how would it look, would they get votes, lose votes.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.