Ray Bradbury Quotes


The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. Ray Bradbury Writers 869
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. Ray Bradbury Politics 279
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. Ray Bradbury Time 184
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Ray Bradbury Television 173
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty halfsecond clips in it or onethird of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. Ray Bradbury Media 172
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury Uncategorized 160
Remember the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. Ray Bradbury Censorship 134
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough itll make sense. Ray Bradbury People 131
It didnt come from the Government down. There was no dictum no declaration no censorship to start with no Technology mass exploitation and minority pressure carried the trick thank God. Ray Bradbury Technology 122
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. Ray Bradbury Book 119
With school turning out more runners jumpers racers tinkerers grabbers snatchers fliers and swimmers instead of examiners critics knowers and imaginative creators the word intellectual of course became the swear word it deserved to be. Ray Bradbury Thinking 116
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Ray Bradbury Censorship 116
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury Impossibility 116
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury Work 108
Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury Life 108
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury Fear 106
Too late I found you cant wait to become perfect you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. Ray Bradbury Perfection 102
Im numb and Im tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if Id been out in a pounding rain for fortyeight hours without an umbrella or a coat. Im soaked to the skin with emotion. Ray Bradbury Emotion 101
Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful. Ray Bradbury Authors 97
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. Ray Bradbury best 93
Creativity is a continual surprise. Ray Bradbury Creativity 90
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. Ray Bradbury Love 89
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. Ray Bradbury Religion 86
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together. Ray Bradbury Authors 86
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down Ray Bradbury Risk 83
Death loves death not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln in the grave. Ray Bradbury Comfort 83
Memory is an illusion nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. Ray Bradbury Memory 81
Millie Does the White Clown love you Ray Bradbury Television 80
Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. Ray Bradbury Civilization 79
Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. Ray Bradbury Stars 78
Into the air over the valleys under the stars above a river a pond a road flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields she flew. Ray Bradbury Witches 78
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. Ray Bradbury Work 78
Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room. Ray Bradbury Poverty 77
Without the library you have no civilization. Ray Bradbury Libraries 76
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury Imagination 76
Thats life for you said MacDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is so it cant hurt you no more. Ray Bradbury Pain 75
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Ray Bradbury Characters 73
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Ray Bradbury Books 72
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Ray Bradbury Boys 72
There must be something in books something we cant imagine to make a woman stay in a burning house there must be something there. You dont stay for nothing. Ray Bradbury Censorship 72
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. Ray Bradbury Work 72
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. Ray Bradbury Science 72
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. Ray Bradbury Government 70
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But theyre fascinated with the snakepit. Ray Bradbury Sociology 69
My goal is to entertain myself and others. Ray Bradbury Uncategorized 68
She didnt watch the dead ancient bonechess cities slide under or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew like a shadow of the moon like a torch burning. Ray Bradbury Science fiction 68
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury Culture 68
Everything is generated through your own will power. Ray Bradbury Power 68
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Ray Bradbury Uncategorized 67
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. Ray Bradbury Insanity 67

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