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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 53fd52d | While Saladin is attacking Reynald at Kerak: "As it happens, Raynald is hosting a wedding party for his wife's son, Humphrey of Toron, and princess Isabelle, King Baldwin's half sister, who is eleven years old.The pounding continues increasingly, but the guests have traveled from all over the Latin East for this party and they are not about to put an end to the festivities over a mere Moslem attack. Finally, Lady Stephanie, Raynald's wife,.. | Paul L. Williams | ||
| 6245924 | No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. | Nonsense | ||
| 7004d12 | In order to have focus we need to escape to focus. | Greg McKeown | ||
| 372d7b2 | faded smiles oft linger in the face,While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head! | Alfred Austin | ||
| 098b039 | Love and naughtiness are always in their teens. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 8587e18 | Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lackThe salt that lends it savour. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 3df58eb | Death is master of lord and clown.Close the coffin and hammer it down. | Alfred Austin | ||
| a07159d | But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. | Claire Messud | ||
| b0d4004 | Public opinion is no more than this,What people think that other people think. | Alfred Austin | ||
| b32f6d2 | Who once has doubted never quite believes. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 4d038b5 | But long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them; while on the other hand, to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| f2d12dd | It was winter here, as if they were in Patagonia or New Zealand, and the light from the sunspot on the sunline smeared so that shadows blurred at the edges, and the air looked rusty. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 5a12089 | Nikoli ne sumnivaisia u divi, iakshch vono trapit'sia | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 656306b | The darkness within darkness was still. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f2b8d5f | Who once believed will never wholly doubt. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 58fa832 | I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation? | writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 5abb302 | I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4f4ec48 | It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as your change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 79d534a | Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?' 'I'd much rather recognize the inhuman in the human. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| fd56c89 | His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a5f9dd0 | There was a silence gathered all about that fire and the silence was in the men's faces, and time was there, time enough to sit by this rusting track under the trees, and look at the world and turn it over with the eyes, as if it were held to the center of the bonfire, a piece of steel these men were all shaping. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 9758604 | That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 51026a6 | Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e8f90be | Mistakes can be profited by. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1430769 | breathing the finest pollen in the world, book dust, with which to develop literary allergies. Dunyanin en guzel poleni olan ve insanda edebi alerji yaratan kitap tozu (Turkish) | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8c7be90 | Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them. But all the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 64749cd | how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 48c3a7c | Leave these people alone. They've got something good and decent, and you come and foul up the nest and sneer at it. Well, I've talked to them too. I've gone through the city and seen their faces, and they've got something you'll never have -- a little simple faith, and they'll move mountains with it. You, you're boiled because someone stole your act, got here ahead and made you unimportant. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 84aa243 | You're very tired, he said. You've traveled a long way and you belong to a tired people who've been without faith a long time, and you want to believe so much now that you're interfering with yourself. You'll only make it harder if you kill. You'll never find him that way. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c2345e2 | That's the way to tour Disneyland, with a complete suspension of disbelief, with a drunken sense of joy and eyes wide with wonder. Let the child inside you come out and play. Laugh and shout! Plunge into the mind and soul of Walt Disney. ---Ray Bradbury | disneyland ray-bradbury walt-disney | Jim Denney | |
| 350a09c | People forget if they don't keep testing things. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d219cad | hungry eyes, | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 73420c6 | Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audiences would know. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2871cc2 | Thomas Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Moliere, tasting society, turned to pick up his scalpel, as did Pope and Shaw. Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7e162b1 | We carry our homes in our heads. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d88e0f9 | Night after night for every year and every year, for no reason at all, the woman comes out and looks at the sky, her hands up, for a long moment, looking at the green burning of Earth, not knowing why she looks, and then she goes back and throws a stick on the fire, and the wind comes up and the dead sea goes on being dead. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0852624 | The accident had occurred at an intersection surrounded on one side by empty factories and a deserted schoolyard, and on the opposite side, by a graveyard. I had come running from the nearest house, a hundred yards away. Yet, within moments, it seemed, a crowd had gathered. Where had they all come from? Later on in time, I could only imagine that some came, in some strange fashion, out of the empty factories, or even more strangely, out of .. | shapes | Ray Bradbury | |
| edd6970 | It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it and it alone has sensed it and shaped it to its own truth." -- | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 477bdd4 | I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair No country far enough to hide your loss. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 137b959 | Go Panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep. Not smash and grab, but rather find and keep; Go panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep To detonate the hidden seeds with stealth So in your wake a weltering dream of wealth Springs up unseen, ignored and left behind As you sneak on, pretending to be blind. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ba0786c | So, lost, erased, you seek a lifetime's days for it And dig deep to find the sweet instructions there Put by when God first circuited and printed thee to life: "Go hence! do this! do that! do yet another thing! This self is yours! Be it!" And what is that?! you cry at hearthing breast, Is there no rest? No, only journeying to be yourself. And even as the Birthmark vanishes, in seashell ear Now fading to a sigh, His last words send you in t.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a7830fc | I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair No countryfar enough to hide your loss. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 098d0b4 | I circumnavigate each cell in you Your merest molecule is right and true Look there for destinies indelible and fine And rare. Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant; Each drop of blood a cloned electric twin of you. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ada8dd4 | I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! | Ray Bradbury |