Ray Bradbury Quotes

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

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.

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.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all th... -Ray Bradbury

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and buildi... -Ray Bradbury

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

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Metaphorically describing living life with a willingness to take risks, emphasizing the courage to step into the unknown and navigate challenges as they arise, suggesting that success can be achieved through resilience and adaptability.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

When I graduated from high school, it was during t... -Ray Bradbury

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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It highlights the speaker's personal experience of graduating from high school during the Great Depression, a period of economic hardship, and mentions the financial challenges they faced during that time.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past an... -Ray Bradbury

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

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.

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.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular... -Ray Bradbury

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

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.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your win... -Ray Bradbury

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to preve... -Ray Bradbury

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've... -Ray Bradbury

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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The quote expresses the speaker's opinion that there should be a renewed investment in space travel, suggesting a belief that the exploration and colonization of space should continue and that humans should not have abandoned the moon. It implies a desire for further progress in space exploration.

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.

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists... -Ray Bradbury

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

My business is to prevent the future.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothi... -Ray Bradbury

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

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 Quotes

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