Ray Bradbury: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”

“.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”

“It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”

“You're insane!"
"I won't argue that point.”

“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

“Work. Don't Think. Relax.”

“Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.”

“I care so much I’m sick.”

“Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.”

“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”

“Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.”

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”

“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”

“What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.”