1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

It became a game that I took to with immense gusto: to see how much I could remember about dandelions themselves, or picking wild grapes with my father and brother, rediscovering the mosquito-breeding ground rain barrel by the side bay window, or searching out the smell of the gold-fuzzed bees that hung around our back porch grape arbor. Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Утро было тихое, город, окутанный тьмой, мирно нежился в постели.Пришло лето, и ветер был летний — теплое дыхание мира, неспешное и ленивое. Стоит лишь встать, высунуться в окошко, и тотчас поймешь: вот она начинается, настоящая свобода и жизнь, вот оно, первое утро лета.

The wind flew Jim away. A similar kite, Will swooped to follow.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

The man was cold as an albino frog.

You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.