Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Bradbury

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Ray Bradbury

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Ray Bradbury

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Ray Bradbury

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Ray Bradbury

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ray Bradbury

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

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

Ray Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Randy Pausch

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

Randy Pausch

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

Randy Pausch

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

Randy Pausch

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Randy Pausch

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

Randy Pausch

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Randy Pausch

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Ralph McGill

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

Ralph Nader

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Ralph Nader

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Nader

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow

Rainer Maria Rilke

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Rainer Maria Rilke

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.