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Why Quotes by Ray Bradbury
- Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
- 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 do—and…
- Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do…
- In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can…
- This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f…
- The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you…
- I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt…
- Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the…
- Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said,…
- 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,…
- You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off…
- Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
- But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around…
- Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
- MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go…
- Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other…
- Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose.…
- 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 they say, can't…
- Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What…
- Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only…
- Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to…
- If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to…
- Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
- I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm…
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood