I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories Quotes

“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“I think all of us felt,” I said, “at least once in our lives, when we were young, we could go over there, after reading the bull stuff in the Spanish stories, that we could go over there and fight. Or at least jog ahead of the running of the bulls, in the early morning, with a good drink waiting at the other end of the run, and your best girl with you there for the long weekend.” I stopped. I laughed quietly. For my voice had, without knowing, fallen into the rhythm of his way of saying, either out of his mouth, or from his hand.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“It’s not so much bad or good as strange and outré, Finn, and words like rococo, I should guess, and baroque if you go with my drift?”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“So, for thousands of years, you humans have needed kings, priests, philosophers, fine examples to look up to and say, ‘They are good, I wish I could be like them.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“Wherever I land, next time I'll look close, swear to God.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadow are always longer. Only at noon can a man fit in his own shoes, his own best suit, for a few brief minutes.
But we're in a new age where we can think up a Big Idea and run it around in a machine. That makes the machine more than a machine, doesn't it?”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“The city unwrapped you like a candy bar and ate you all up.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“You see, no one Believes a really all-encompassing and protective love when they see it clear.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“A car, for instance, dead brute, unthinking, an unprogrammed bulk, is the greatest destroyer of souls in history. It makes boy-men greedy for power, destruction, and more destruction. It was never intended to do that. But that’s how it turned out.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“At eleven that hot night everyone in Texas was awake because of the heat.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“This child can’t be allowed to have normal playmates; why, they’d pester it to death in no time.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“This car,” he said, “somewhere along the way does it turn into a plane?” “I don’t know,” I said. “Somewhere along the way do you turn into my pilot?” “It could be. I’ve never done this before.” “But you’re willing to try?” I nodded.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“And then, the stars came out. It was like that first night of childhood when his father had taken him out beyond the city to a hill where the lights could not diminish the Universe. And there were a thousand, no ten thousand, no ten million billion stars filling the darkness. The stars were manifold and bright, and they did not care. Even then he had known: they do not care. If I breathe or do not breathe, live or die, the eyes that look from all around don’t care. And he had seized his father’s hand and gripped tight, as if he might fall up into that abyss. Now, in this building, he was full of the old terror and the old sense of beauty and the old silent crying out after mankind. The stars filled him with pity for small men lost in so much size.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“If paying attention is love, I am love.

If knowing is love, I am love.

If helping you not to fall into error and to be good is love, I am love.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric!

“What a joke, Simon, life is. “From vanity we buy lenses that see all and so lose everything! “And by giving up some small bit-piece of so-called wisdom, reality, truth, we gain back an entirety of life! Who does not know this? Writers do! Intuited novels are far more ‘true’ than all your scribbled data-fact reportage in the history of the world!”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“As if hypnotized, he felt his gaze rise again to the old highway which swept by with winds that smelled a billion years ago. Great bursts of headlight arrived, then cut away in departures of red taillight, like schools of small bright fish darting in the wake of sharks and blind-traveling whales. The lights sank away and were lost in the black hills. Charlie”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“Какво е любовта? Може би ще открием, че любовта е способността на някого да ни върне към самите нас. Може би любовта е някой, който ни е виждал, помни ни и ни връща обратно на нас самите мъничко по-добри, отколкото сме дръзвали да се надяваме и мечтаем.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Нито един човек не е тъй велик като своите идеи.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Искам да кажа, че не може просто да обичаш хората, Ти трябва да ги ОБИЧАШ с удивителни знаци.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Предполагам, че намразваш хората, когато те карат да се чувстваш оголен, искам да кажа, като ти изваждат на открито недостатъците.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“С ярката си риза и пръчка с кука на върха аз тръгвам всяка сутрин да… почиствам плажовете. Толкова много, о, толкова много човешки тела лежат там в светлината. И толкова много души се губят в мрак. Опитвам се да вървя сред всички тях, без да се… препъвам…”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Somewhere along the way do you turn into my pilot?” “It could be. I’ve never done this before.” “But you’re willing to try?” I nodded.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories

“He does not see that we all do what we must to survive. Some laugh, some cry, some bang the world with fists, some run, but it all sums up the same: they make do. The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.

—Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby’s Is a Friend of Mine”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“Y aunque en los próximos cien mil años sigamos preguntándonos qué es el amor, quizá descubramos al fin que el amor es alguien capaz de devolvernos a nosotros mismos. Quizá el amor sea alguien que ve y se acuerda de devolvernos a nosotros mismos, mostrándonos que somos un poco mejores que en nuestras mismas esperanzas y en nuestros sueños.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric: Teleplay