1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, "Well, to hell with you." And the cat says, "Wait a minute. He's not behaving the way most humans do." Then the cat follows you out of curiosity: "Well, what's wrong with you that you don't love me?

Иногда я подслушиваю разговоры в метро. Или у фонтанчиков с содовой водой. И знаете что? — Что? — Люди ни о чём не говорят. — Ну как это может быть! — Да-да. Ни о чём.Сыплют названиями — марки автомобилей, моды, плавательные бассейны и ко всему прибавляют: «Как шикарно!» Все они твердят одно и то же. Как трещотки.

There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again."The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine.

Той отново погледна към стената. Колко много приличаше лицето й на огледало! Просто невероятно! Колцина са онези, които могат да отразят собствената ти светлина? Хората по-често приличат на… Той потърси сравнение и го намери в своята професия — на факли, които силно пламтят, докато изтлеят. Колко рядко лицата на другите възприемат от теб собствения ти израз, съкровените ти и трепетни мисли и ги отразяват обратно върху теб?

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.

But the tables were silent and the cards untouched.

Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone?

There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms.

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.