Quotes

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.” Ray Bradbury

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” George Orwell

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Ray Bradbury

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.” Ray Bradbury

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” Ray Bradbury

“We are anthill men upon an anthill world.” Ray Bradbury

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell

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

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.” Ray Bradbury

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” Ray Bradbury

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.” Ray Bradbury

“You fail only if you stop writing.” Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Ray Bradbury

“You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” George Orwell

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.” Lewis Carroll

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” Frank Zappa

“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.” Lewis Carroll

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.” Frank Zappa

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.” Lewis Carroll

“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.” Frank Zappa

“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.” Frank Zappa

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” Lewis Carroll

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.” Frank Zappa

“Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?” Lewis Carroll