Ray Bradbury - I don't believe in colleges and...

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: August 22, 1920

Died: June 5, 2012

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Melody Beattie, William Arthur Ward, Dale Carnegie, Dr. Seuss, H. L. Mencken, Napoleon Hill, W. E. B. Du Bois, Elbert Hubbard

Topics

Believe, Colleges, Universities

Quotes to Explore

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Change Science Art You

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Now Get Machines Got

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Eyes You World Live

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 be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Life Myself Day Mirror

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Beautiful Being How Over

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

You People Destroy Automobile

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Politics Hate Thinking Political

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Men Time Video Games Nothing

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Education Myself Money You

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Courage You Fall Wings Jump

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 cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Friendship Love Time Business

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

People Shadows House Photograph

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading Worse Books Than Them

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You Try Things Must

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