Ray BradburyWhat is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifeti… ▶371LifeLoveTime
Ray BradburyThis was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought. ✨ Ray Bradb… ▶361ReadingThoughtTime
Ray BradburyIs it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.35, Hamilton Books372ReadingTruth
Ray BradburyDo you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists hav… ▶361HumanityLifePolitics
Ray BradburyCram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, th… ▶361PhilosophyReadingThought
Ray BradburyI don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down. ✨ Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and ang… ▶372LifeThought
Ray BradburyLife shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.361LifeTime
Ray BradburyI'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.362Humanity
Ray BradburyBut you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. ✨ Ray Bradbury (20… ▶373HumanityReadingTime
Ray BradburyDay, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.351LoveReading
Ray BradburyMost of my short stories are fantasy.373Time
Ray BradburyFacts are not interesting to me.373Truth
Ray BradburyForgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you we… ▶373HopeHumanityReading
Ray BradburyCan't you recognize the human in the inhuman? ✨ Ray Bradbury (2012). The Illustrated Man, p.123, Simon and Schuster352Humanity
Ray BradburyNo person ever died that had a family. ✨ Ray Bradbury (1980). The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated374Death
Ray BradburyThe problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of… ▶352HumanityReadingThought
Ray BradburyI’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.374LifeThoughtTime
Ray BradburyI want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weig… ▶363HumorReading
Ray BradburyYou 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, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). Conversations with Ray Bradbury, p.18… ▶374Truth
Ray BradburySurprise is where creativity comes in.341Sadness
Ray BradburyThe only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all co… ▶341ReadingThought
Ray BradburyI was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.375Philosophy
Ray BradburyMaybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.35, Hamilton Boo… ▶375Reading
Ray BradburyHe stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him… ▶342Reading
Ray BradburyAnd what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2015). Zen … ▶364LifeThought
Ray BradburyBut with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read. ✨ Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). Listen to the … ▶354Reading
Ray BradburyIf you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.365DeathTruth
Ray BradburyHe glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searche… ▶321HumanityReflectionThought
Ray BradburyOh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, … ▶365Reading
Ray BradburyAnd what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been … ▶376DeathLifeReading
