83 Ray Bradbury Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ray Bradbury

American Writer

Born: Aug 22, 1920

Died: Jun 5, 2012

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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. Ray Bradbury

Politics Hate Political Party Thinking Individual Like Political Party Middle Stops Anyone Either Them Should Standing Belong Belongs

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury

Building Down Living Way Risk Wings Cliff Off Jumping Your

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury

Love Friendship Time You Business Intelligence Build Cynical Down Our Way Wings Never Well Because Got Cliffs Nonsense Affair Go Intellect Off Jump Love Affair Listened Your

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury

Impossible Universe Impossibility

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. Ray Bradbury

Good Stupid Mars Any Going Land

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. Ray Bradbury

Life Myself Day Happy Every Day Writing Joy Result Behavior My Life Mirror Every Back Later Only Looked Occasionally Answer Years Optimal Wonder Optimistic Person Worked Happy Person Creating Each Each Day Found Why Staring Image

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. Ray Bradbury

Education Myself You Library Book People Money Better College Three Every Complete Spent Thousand Week Had Written Days Read Educate Educating Years End Than Get Stories Public Themselves Should Public Library

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury

Work Love Hard Work Good You Practice Before Thousand Thousand Times Something True Know Heard Off Times Want Then Hard Pays

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury

Future Past Libraries No Future Without

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Ray Bradbury

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. Ray Bradbury

God Religion You Believe Universe Earth All Religions Religions Am

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury

Life Me You Matter Will Imagination Universe Incredible Alive Miracle Over Force Another Making Itself Experimenting Forms

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury

Art You Change Science Writing World Impossible Will Nothing Changes Everybody Everything Possible Some Small Small Part Never Part Head Idea Soon Science Fiction Always Occurs Exist Same Any Fiction Again Ever

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Ray Bradbury

Me Library Find Discovered

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Ray Bradbury

People Gone Side Saw Photograph Shadows Remained Had House Were Hiroshima Wall Intensity Burned After Who Lived Bomb Bombed

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. Ray Bradbury

You Try Must Simply Them Things

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. Ray Bradbury

Gives Inspiration Lack Us Fullness

We've got to dumb America up again. Ray Bradbury

Got Dumb Up America Again

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