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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c4c4fc | When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting. | sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 278d160 | Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals. | fantasy humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| f2f363f | It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction" | confidence essential happiness human-nature inspirational knowledge-of-self philosophy values wisdom | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1534476 | Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister. | going-away humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 492cc41 | The world is always ending for someone. | end-of-the-world | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0310b39 | Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses. Most of them will say the equivalent, in their own language, of "Funny old world, isn't it?" and just keep going." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5267471 | It's what people do. They believe. And when they will not take responsibilities for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 677fccd | I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 37a6b65 | Daddy", she said, "you've made a recipe again." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e7d86b9 | You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5f78589 | I was sad that nobody had come to my birthday party, but happy that I had a Batman figure, and there was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bff02b2 | What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything. | perspective | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6c12118 | There are many forms of poverty: economic poverty, physical poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty, and spiritual poverty. As long as we relate primarily to each other's wealth, health, stability, intelligence, and soul strength, we cannot develop true community. Community is not a talent show in which we dazzle the world with our combined gifts. Community is the place where our poverty is acknowledged and accepted, not as something we .. | poverty | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 2865c8b | Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 9daebe8 | I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| c8640f4 | The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 2985c79 | This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. --ARISTOTLE | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| b3d956b | The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, "We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction." -- | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| 186b1bf | Yes, there is that voice, the voice that speaks from above and from within and that whispers softly or declares loudly: "You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests." It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody--unless you can demonstrate the opposite." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 236bb10 | Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8dda2bd | Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it. | life writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| a1b2333 | He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise the immediate atmosp.. | waiting | Ray Bradbury | |
| 68ae049 | When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 08c6762 | We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7304c88 | The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are... The good writers touch life often. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8b5cecd | Cica sunt antisociala. Nu ma integrez. E foarte bizar. De fapt, sunt o fiinta foarte sociabila. Totul depinde de ceea ce intelegi prin sociabil, nu? Pentru mine sociabil inseamna sa discut cu tine despre astfel de lucruri. Sau sa vorbesc despre cat de ciudata este lumea. E placut sa fii cu oameni. Dar nu cred ca sociabil inseamna sa aduni la un loc un grup de persoane si sa nu le dai voie sa vorbeasca, n-am dreptate? O ora de televiziune, o.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4f44aaf | Vinagi s'm viarvala, che istinskata liubov e liubov mezhdu dva uma, makar che tialoto poniakoga otkazva da go priznae. To zhivee edinstveno, za da se khrani i da ochakva noshchta. To e po s'shchnostta si s'zdadeno, za da zhivee prez noshchta. Ala kakvo da kazhem za uma, koito e rozhba na sl'ntseto, Uiliam, i prez khiliadite chasove ot zhivota triabva da b'de buden i nashchrek? Nima mozhe da se sravniava tialoto, tova zhalko, sebichno tvoren.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 62e1f46 | Oiled, with tube bones cut from bronze and sunk in gelatin, the robots lay. In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion. There was a smell of lubrication and lathed brass. There was a silence of the tomb yard. Sexed but sexless, the robots. Named but unnamed, and borrowing from humans everything but humanity, the robots stared at the nailed lids of their labeled F.O.B. boxes, in a d.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a023a78 | Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! | fahrenheit-451 perspectives ray-bradbury tower-of-babel variety | Ray Bradbury | |
| 40bd58b | My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous." "Men like that always are." | books burn dangerous | Ray Bradbury | |
| e9be1cb | Doom. Doom. You sound like a funeral bell tolling,' said Grandfather. 'Talk like that is worse than swearing. I won't wash out your mouth with soap, however. A thimbleful of dandelion wine is indicated. Here, now, swig it down What's it taste like?' 'I'm a fire-eater! Whoosh!' 'Now upstairs, run three times around the block, do five somersets, six pushups, climb two trees, and you'll be concertmaster instead of chief mourner. Get!' On his w.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2d3bacd | She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0731a10 | I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim's got the hair on his head, the yell in his mouth, the shirt on his back and the tennis shoes on his feet. How come I think he's richer? | richness wealth | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9a0afc8 | There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight, I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't konw what. I might even start reading books. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2dc0618 | Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware." | dead dull ignorant | Ray Bradbury | |
| 1d28b42 | In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested and slept him while his eyes were wide and his mouth, when he thought to test it, was half a smile. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a8fc78f | Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 15c2558 | Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1a0ccf3 | My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't move!" "Listen. Easy now," said the old man gently. "I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and .. | fahrenheit-451 growth guy-montag ignorance learning life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 332ca7e | It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh. | hitler humanity | Ray Bradbury | |
| 401cc77 | Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ff0d3a4 | The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3efd05c | No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into on.. | language meaning reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| f986831 | We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy,Something's missing! | modernism | Ray Bradbury |