Ray Douglas Bradbury Famous Quotes
You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
"That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
Ray Douglas Bradbury Quotations
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Colette
"My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred."
Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)"
Phil Gramm
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
Saint Augustine
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
Albert Einstein
"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before."
Colin Greenwood
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."
Eric Anderson
"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs."
William R Allen
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson