The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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Related People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing wi... CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL Every performer has a little gem, a little pearl they have done that nobody pays much attention to. ... JOHNNY MATHIS These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p... CHRISTINA ENGELA You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of every... B.J. NOVAK ...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exact... TONY PARSONS So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on t... PABLO NERUDA He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a... CRAIG GROESCHEL We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si... ALISTAIR MACLEAN Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People... DARRYL F. ZANUCK What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Ma... AL GREEN We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... SPIKE MILLIGAN And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that ... BIBLE Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him hi... R. D. LAING The funds promised, and which may never be appropriated, are so little as to have almost no effect g... JEFF VOGT We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN Always let people be surprised that you gave them more than you promised, faster than you promised, ... ROBERT J. RINGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, bu... DEYTH BANGER My so-called career is a haphazard thing. PAUL MCCARTNEY Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people ... CAVETT ROBERT They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moo... FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER We all have a choice—to be monsters or men. It is not a matter of blood, but a condition of the he... ELIZABETH D. MARIE Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. SAMUEL BUTLER The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are... APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT We grow up in a world where satisfying our cravings seems to be the number one objective, every adve... EVAN SUTTER Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the spec... HERBERT LOM After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, wh... KAY RALA XANANA GUSMAO In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Me... DONATELLA VERSACE I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Taber... WALTER CRONKITE For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ... RAY BRADBURY Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all to... VIDYA BALAN There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not t... AMY CARMICHAEL I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to... MUHAMMAD YUNUS As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. ROBIN MCKINLEY The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunse... STEVEN MAGEE Darkness is always a good thing because then you can focus much more on the light. So this era of da... TONY SAMARA I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R... REBECCA STEAD Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury T.K. THORNE To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold. A QUE I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seeme... RICK RIORDAN Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. JIMI HENDRIX Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she refle... JEFFREY FRY Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to... HULK HOGAN So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it. WILLY WONKA What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. MAX BECKMANN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they... BIBLE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of... CHARLES DICKENS We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that... BERTRAND RUSSELL Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then yo... SOURCE UNKNOWN I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown
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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 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... RAY BRADBURY You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl... RAY BRADBURY