“'Why is it...I feel like I've known you for so many years?' 'Because I like you...And I don't want anything from you.'”— Guy, Clarisse, amazon.comTagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Friends
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Important, real, bothered
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Mistakes, Ignorance, Learning
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: chances, risks, Bravery
“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it well be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God,…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Universe, Life, live life
“I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Choices, Right, Wrong
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Television, electronics, Thinking, Intelligence
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Books, Happiness, Universe
“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, risks, Bravery
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Life, enjoy life
“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Crying, Tears
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or th…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Souls, Creativity
“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”— Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag, amazon.comTagged: Bridge, Communication, Communications, Light, Mirror Writing
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless , hairless, expressionless . We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even f…”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.comTagged: Books are hated., Hate Books, Simulacrum, Unreality
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.comTagged: Books, Knowledge Storage
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want…”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.comTagged: Media Manipulation, Rebellion
“Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”— Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag, amazon.com