(Sophomore) Gil South worked his tail off on the mound today. But we just can't seem to get him any run support.


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Each one wound up to purr,
each one a pride, RAY BRADBURY
We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
RAY BRADBURY
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
RAY BRADBURY
Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often e...
RAY BRADBURY
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
RAY BRADBURY
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
RAY BRADBURY
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
RAY BRADBURY
We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fi...
RAY BRADBURY
Write. Don't think. Relax.
RAY BRADBURY
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and th...
RAY BRADBURY
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to ...
RAY BRADBURY
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i...
RAY BRADBURY
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be...
RAY BRADBURY
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
RAY BRADBURY
It's the next natural step ... to get a first-hand account and bring the story full circle. They are...
ADRIAN BRADBURY
The story really struck me. I really believe there isn't a worse place in the world to be a child.
ADRIAN BRADBURY
The response has blown us away for sure. The only way you can affect change is by doing it ... wheth...
ADRIAN BRADBURY
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit ma...
RAY BRADBURY
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life?

See Istanbu...
RAY BRADBURY
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh...
RAY BRADBURY
You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i...
RAY BRADBURY
We're seeing a big increase in recent years in oyster sets on our beaches. A couple years ago we had...
ALEX BRADBURY
Every year we go out and see people using screwdrivers and filet knives and hammers, and you're alwa...
ALEX BRADBURY
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
RAY BRADBURY
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like...
RAY BRADBURY
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's...
RAY BRADBURY
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
RAY BRADBURY
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
RAY BRADBURY
Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
RAY BRADBURY
Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
RAY BRADBURY
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURY
Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
RAY BRADBURY
I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
RAY BRADBURY
The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
RAY BRADBURY
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
RAY BRADBURY
When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY
There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY
Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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