Ray Bradbury Quotes

I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one anot...

I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder, ' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for...

I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing.

I never in my life argued with a piece of cake or a bowl of ice cream.

I never thought of God as humorous, said Father Stone. The Creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man? Oh, come now!

I suppose one night hundreds of thousands of years ago in a cave by a night fire when one of those shaggy men wakened to gaze over the banked coals at his woman, his children, and thought of their bei...

I think all of us felt, I said, at least once in our lives, when we were young, we could go over there, after reading the bull stuff in the Spanish stories, that we could go over there and fight. Or a...

I took the candy wrappers shamefacedly, and felt the extra ten pounds sag around my middle as I held these flags of defeat.Я стыдливо взял конфетные обертки — эти свидетельства моего поражения, — чувс...

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that...

I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've d...

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

I'll tell you, said Beatty, smiling at his cards. That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads,...

I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'...

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.

I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.

If it seems I've come the long way around, perhaps I have. But I wanted to show what we all have in us, that it has always been there, and so few of us bother to notice. When people ask me where I get...

If there were no war, if there was peace in the world, I'd say fine, have fun! But, Montag, you mustn't go back to being just a fireman. All isn't well with the world.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.’ – Juan Ramón Jiménez

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget that their is such a thing as war. If the gove...

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.