"The women in my life have all..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
More by Ray Bradbury
“A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.”
“I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.”
“The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.”
More on Education
“If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.”
“I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.”
“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”
More on Books
“Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.”
“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”
“I have my books and my poetry to protect me”