Running Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not…

— Ray Bradbury

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But…

— Ray Bradbury

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

— Ray Bradbury

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

— Ray Bradbury

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

— Ray Bradbury

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

— Ray Bradbury

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run…

— 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

All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All…

— Ray Bradbury

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums,…

— Ray Bradbury

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as…

— Ray Bradbury

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim.…

— Ray Bradbury

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn…

— Ray Bradbury

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was…

— Ray Bradbury

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my…

— Ray Bradbury

They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— 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

Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what…

— Ray Bradbury

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All…

— Ray Bradbury

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at…

— Ray Bradbury

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

— Ray Bradbury

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave…

— Ray Bradbury

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front…

— Ray Bradbury

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run…

— Ray Bradbury

They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all…

— Ray Bradbury

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut…

— Ray Bradbury

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan…

— Ray Bradbury

You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the…

— Ray Bradbury

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?…

— Ray Bradbury

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible…

— Ray Bradbury