Ray Bradbury Quotes

I don't know anything anymore

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 beatingup one anoth...

I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don’t really feel clever and don’t want to be clever. To sneak around andmake plans and feel big about making them. I hate this feeling of thinking I...

I libri erano soltanto una specie di veicolo, di ricettacolo in cui riponevamo tutte le cose che temevamo di poter dimenticare. Non c'è nulla di magico, nei libri; la magia sta solo in ciò che essi di...

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

I miss that in the city you can walk outside your front door and there’s people all around you. And they don’t know a thing about you.You could be anyone.

I started traveling. My luggage was snowed under blizzards of travel stickers. I have been alone in Paris, alone in Vienna, alone in London, and all in all, it is very much like being alone in Green T...

It was a day to be out of bed, to pull curtains and fling open windows.It was a day to make your heart bigger with warm mounain air.

It’s not so much bad or good as strange and outré, Finn, and words like rococo, I should guess, and baroque if you go with my drift?

Where do we go from here? Would books help us?Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: th...

You're a fool, a damn fool, an awful fool, an idiot, an awful idiot, a damn idiot, and a fool, a damn fool

Есть преступления хуже, чем сжигать книги.Например - не читать их.

Сякаш някои издърпа запушалка и всичката сива морска вода се устреми с рев надолу през обувките ми – почувствах как тъгата ми изчезва.

— Трябва да се научиш как да не се вкопчваш, преди да се научиш как да придобиваш. Животът трябва да бъде докосван, а не удушаван. Трябва да се отпуснеш, понякога да оставяш нещата да се случват, а др...

Какви други нови глупости си издраскал там?- Че съм жив.- Хе, хе – това е старо. - Това, че мисля за него, че го забелязвам, то е новото.

Мъртвите хора са като восъчен спомен - вземаш ги в представите си, започваш да ги моделираш: тук поопънеш нещо, там посплескаш, изтегляш тялото по-дълго, оформяш и размачкваш, извайваш и накрая се пол...

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And 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 awarded us. Life asks...

Because the Muse persists.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority