Ray Bradbury Quotes
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
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The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
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Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
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You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
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In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.
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Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.