Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
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Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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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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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.