People Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

— Ray Bradbury

Beware the autumn people

— Ray Bradbury

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

— Ray Bradbury

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

— Ray Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

— Ray Bradbury

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

— Ray Bradbury

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

— Ray Bradbury

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

— Ray Bradbury

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

— Ray Bradbury

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

— Ray Bradbury

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

— Ray Bradbury

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people…

— Ray Bradbury

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing…

— Ray Bradbury

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world…

— Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

— Ray Bradbury

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular…

— Ray Bradbury

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who…

— Ray Bradbury

You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself,…

— Ray Bradbury

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called…

— Ray Bradbury

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind…

— Ray Bradbury

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house…

— Ray Bradbury

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is…

— Ray Bradbury

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of…

— Ray Bradbury

But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed…

— Ray Bradbury

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to…

— Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who…

— Ray Bradbury

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

— Ray Bradbury

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are…

— Ray Bradbury

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

— Ray Bradbury

“How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them…

— Ray Bradbury