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Off Quotes by Ray Bradbury
- 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…
- 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…
- Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
- You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
- My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I…
- I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
- I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
- If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave…
- I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.
- Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
- We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what…
- We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars.…
- I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me…
- Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over…
- Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future,…
- The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us -…
- Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
- Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
- I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you…
- You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon,…
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