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Time Quotes by Ray Bradbury

141 Time quotes by Ray Bradbury

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A night walk under the stars invites us to smell, listen, and taste the world, seizing each fleeting second. Bradbury urges us to run toward the greatest time in history, filling our senses, while also reminding us that each breath is whisked away in an instant.

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How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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My business is to prevent the future.

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

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I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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“the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time.”

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“Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?”

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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

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“They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But…

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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to…

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“By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.”

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“We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.”

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“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.”

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Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.

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The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all…

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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The…

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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen?…

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The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water… The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time…

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“He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the…

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. Youve got to relax, let…

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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you…

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“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure.…

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For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are…

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

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“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time. I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated…

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The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.…

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“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about,…

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For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled…

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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool…

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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists…

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“Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But…

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“Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires.…

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“A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that…

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“Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long…

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“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time…

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“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

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“The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,…

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“He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority