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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35141be | A red neon sign flickered dimly, buzzed like a dying insect, as they passed. | street-signs | Ray Bradbury | |
| d403851 | Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 29f4e20 | Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2603c5e | Let us remain childlike and not childish in our 20-20 vision, borrowing such telescopes, rockets, or magic carpets as may be needed to hurry us along to miracles of physics as well as dream. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 481de6e | Bill, when you're my age, you'll find out it's the little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, you know why? Because it's full of flavors, full of a lot of things growing. You've time to seek and find. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6d956f4 | The phone was laid on a desk thousands of miles away. Once more, with that clear familiarity, the footsteps, the pause, and, at last, the raising of the window. "Listen," whispered the old man to himself. And he heard a thousand people in another sunlight, and the faint, tinkling music of an organ grinder playing "La Marimba"-- oh, a lovely, dancing tune. With eyes tight, the old man put up his hand as if to click pictures of an old cath.. | nostalgia phone time | Ray Bradbury | |
| f5d6037 | Colonel Freeleigh?" said Douglas softly. There was something in his silence that made them all shut up their mouths. They approached, almost on tiptoe. Douglas, bent down, disengaged the phone from the old man's now quite cold fingers. Douglas lifted the receiver to his own ear, listened. Above the static he heard a strange, a far, a final sound. Two thousand miles away, the closing of a window." | phone-calls windows | Ray Bradbury | |
| 90b0155 | All I know is I feel good going to bed nights, Doug. That's a happy ending once a day. Next morning I'm up and maybe things go bad. But all I got to do is remember that I'm going to bed that night and just lying there a while makes everything ok. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 726bca3 | Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 33efd27 | We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e685869 | For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b02f323 | Young man,' she said to Bill Forrester, 'you are a person of taste and imagination. Also, you have the will power of ten men; otherwise you would not dare veer away from the common flavors listed on the menu and order, straight out, without quibble or reservation, such an unheard-of things as lime-vanilla ice.' He bowed his head solemnly to her. 'Come sit with me, both of you,' she said. 'We'll talk of strange ice creams and such things as .. | ice-cream strange-things will-power | Ray Bradbury | |
| 23ab876 | Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 33d97be | I suppose one night hundreds of thousands of years ago in a cave by a night fire when one of those shaggy men wakened to gaze over the banked coals at his woman, his children, and thought of their being cold, dead, gone forever. Then he must have wept. And he put out his hand in the night to the woman who must die some day and to the children who must follow her. And for a little bit next morning, he treated them somewhat better, for he saw.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2e6fa8f | Have a drink?" " I don't need it," said Halloway. "But someone inside me does." "Who?" The boy I once was, thought Halloway, who runs like the leaves down the sidewalk autumn nights. But he couldn't say that. So he drank, eyes shut, listening to hear if that thing inside turned over again, rustling in the deep bons that were stacked for burning but never burned." | alcohol drink longing regret youth | Ray Bradbury | |
| a972601 | Is death being on a ship sailing and all your folks left back on the shore? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 38ca5b1 | What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?" Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. "It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys resp.. | destruction fire man nature | Ray Bradbury | |
| c16f5ff | Enemies come, too, from opinions and thoughts. In five seconds you've made an enemy for life. Life's so short enemies must be made quickly. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0916bf5 | Not words in books or words you say, but real thoughts, real actions, quick thought, quick action, win the day. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8156e44 | Lena?" He glanced at the dictionary. "Are you 'pleased, contented, joyful, delighted'? Do you feel 'Lucky, fortunate'? Are things 'clever and fitting,' 'successful and suitable' for you?" Lena stopped slicing vegetables and closed her eyes. "Read me the list again, please," she said. He shut the book. "What have I done, you got to stop and think an hour before you can tell me. All I ask is a simple yes or no! You're not contented, deligh.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c4f9d8a | Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns. | guns wisdom | Ray Bradbury | |
| 08593f3 | How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them? | writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4eea756 | Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world? | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| fffba2a | Over the next hundred years, more gold would be extracted from a single mine in the Black Hills (an estimated $1 billion) than from any other mine in the continental United States. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 43ad665 | a space of time is a great breeder of myths. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 0a21664 | During World War II, the University of Minnesota's Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene conducted what scientists and relief workers still regard today as a benchmark study of starvation. Partly funded by religious groups, including the Society of Friends, the study was intended to help the Allies cope with released concentration-camp internees, prisoners of war, and refugees. The participants were all conscientious objectors who volunteered.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| e621b01 | When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely...," Private Taylor wrote, "it would...demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 54f68c0 | Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 9e783e6 | In 1836, the Lydia, a Nantucket whaleship, was struck and sunk by a sperm whale, as was the Two Generals a few years later. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 09eb286 | Hindsight has a way of corrupting people's memories, inviting them to view a past event not as it actually occurred but as they wished it had occurred given the ultimate result. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| dda7ee8 | Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 7d360e2 | The day before, they had started eating the saltwater-damaged bread. The bread, which they had carefully dried in the sun, now contained all the salt of seawater but not, of course, the water. Already severely dehydrated, the men were, in effect, pouring gasoline on the fire of their thirsts--forcing their kidneys to extract additional fluid from their bodies to excrete the salt. They were beginning to suffer from a condition known as hyper.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 4d673e8 | If half of the two thousand warriors fired ten arrows each during the engagement, that would have been a total of ten thousand arrows, | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 7c822a8 | The act of self-expression--through writing a journal or letters--often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| f6c1ec7 | How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics." | compassion empathy grace-of-god prosperity | Nathaniel Philbrick | |
| 50c8496 | Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 949fac2 | After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 36ddaa3 | Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 36e55f7 | Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor | colony governor indians mayflower pilgrim puritan religion survival | Nathaniel Philbrick | |
| 89a9909 | Without Massasoit's help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the very end. For his part, Massasoit realized almost from the start that his own fortunes were linked to those of the English. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| daf24ae | Part of what makes a revolution such a fascinating subject to study is the arrival of the moment when neutrality is no longer an option. Like it or not, a person has to choose. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| e2fd459 | Some Englishmen privately admitted that if the Narragansetts had chosen to join Philip in July, all would have been lost. As the Nipmucks assailed them from the west, the far more powerful Narragansetts might have stormed up from the south, and Boston would have been overrun by a massive pan-Indian army. But instead of acknowledging the debt they owed the Narragansetts, the Puritans resolved to wipe them out. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 2bea578 | Trust in God allows us to live with active expectation, not cynicism. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c5a03aa | The Puritans believed that the identity of the Saints had long since been determined by God. This meant that there was nothing a person could do to win salvation. But instead of being a reason to forsake all hope, what was known as predestination became a powerful goad to action. No one could be entirely sure as to who was one of the elect, and yet, if a person was saved, he or she naturally lived a godly life. As a result, the Puritans wer.. | Nathaniel Philbrick |