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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.


Ray Bradbury

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BELLA SHADOW It's a bunch of cool things that look huge on a small stage but it's exciting for the kids because i...
MATT SHADOW That was a good group and these guys have played in their shadows since they were in Mustang and Bro...
DENNY BUTLER I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de...
SYLVIA PLATH I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
STEPHEN HAWKING The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.
BETH LOWERY Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.
MELISSA ANDREA Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United ...
JACK BROOKS I'm nothing, a mere shadow of all your failures, trying to run away.
ROGER FLORES When the towers fell ...” They cast such a shadow, and it stretched out over our lives. We grew up...
STEFAN MOHAMED Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie w...
SAM WELLER Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankles...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminishe...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow...
MARY STEWART Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long frien...
GREG BEAR I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
GEORGE FOREMAN He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shad...
PEARL S. BUCK Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow i...
PEARL S. BUCK What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline fo...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
GEORGE FOREMAN Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
T.K. THORNE The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
EDWARD YOUNG Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separate...
JAMES THURBER Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK We never knock, for nobody's there--
Just me and my shadow, all alone and feeling blue.
BILLY ROSE Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
THOMAS CAMPION Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, di...
OLIVER CROMWELL There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my s...
THOMAS MERTON One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it
ELIZABETH BOWEN We never knock, for nobody's there--Just me and my shadow, all alone and feeling blue.
BILLY ROSE You can see his shadow. He'll watch. He is a great observer. When the head coach seriously believes ...
JOE JURASZEK I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I c...
ROBERT STEVENSON It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst, and those...
HENRY VANDYKE Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
AESOP this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow al...
JOSH SCHWARTZ There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
LUCAN We are pleased to have reached a settlement that enables both companies to move forward without the ...
BILL FENDRICK I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collect...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not ...
PEARL S. BUCK Where there is much light, the shadow is deep
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object i...
ELLEN THORSEN I couldn't have asked for a better setup, even if it is my former shadow looming once again over me....
FRANK BLACK It is throwing a shadow over the entry talks.
JUERGEN TRITTIN Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.
RAY BRADBURY I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
RAY BRADBURY I just want to be the shadow of each relation in my life. No matters how many colors my relation get...
NEHA KOTHARI There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these s...
KENSI BRIANNE SMITH There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZE A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide t...
JUSTIN DAVID NEVINS You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the...
STEPHEN KING Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL This was the shadow controlling the flame.
VICTORIA AVEYARD When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
LEONARD LAUDER No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It foll...
HARUKI MURAKAMI A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it....
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the ...
LEIGH BARDUGO A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA Fear lives in Love's shadow
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it....
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b...
HARUKI MURAKAMI ...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too youn...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tr...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
JOSEPH CONRAD When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...
NEIL GAIMAN Suddenly, the shadow disappeared through the wall!
Maybe the shadow disappeared again.Can we p...
MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
HELMUT KOHL Simon Wiesenthal, like few others ... personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality,
HELMUT KOHL Simon Wiesenthal ... personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. ... Despite this, I was...
HELMUT KOHL Simon Wiesenthal, like few others . . . personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. De...
HELMUT KOHL We welcome every move towards lightening the shadow of the nuclear terror under which we live today,
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
OSCAR WILDE I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and get the chance to be Tyler Campbell and blend in witho...
EARL CAMPBELL Someone will have to weed and spread
The young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hour
When shado...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Shadows are mute testimonies to the swirling second-hand of time.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-oran...
JENNIFER SALVATO DOKTORSKI [Stepping out from the shadow of Psycho , and such other iconic works as Less Than Zero and The Rule...
BRET EASTON ELLIS With early Jensen silver jewelry there's interplay of Realism and Impressionism, of light and shadow...
DAVID A. TAYLOR My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' pa...
GARY BUSEY Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies y...
BEN JONSON One s slaves as one s shadow, one s daughter as the highest object of tenderness, hence if one is of...
GURU NANAK You're having to labor in the shadow of Michael Brown is what I think is happening here.
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"I won't argue that point.
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RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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