Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury Quotes

#1. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

Scott Foley

#2. To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Robin Crow

#3. I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

Richard Greenberg

#4. Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

John G. Lake

#5. The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

Bertrand Russell

#6. By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk.

Jonathan Eller

#7. The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

J.P. Donleavy

#8. Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.

Devin Nunes

#9. Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

Carl Sandburg

#10. Truth be told, I've seen ye watching me, staring. Your eyes tell me what ye are thinking." When she stiffened, he leaned in closer. "I think ye wonder what lies beneath my kilt. If ye ask me nicely, mayhap I'll show ye. But ye'll have to say please.

Victoria Roberts

#11. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.

Thomas King

#12. It will be a dark day, a bloody day, a proud day, for this is the day of our wrath.

John Gwynne

#13. I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

Randa Haines

#14. Dealing with people whose singular purpose in life is to create problems consumes far too much energy. However, it's much like swatting furiously at an irritating fly; eventually you realize that until you kill it, it will continue to annoy you!

Carlos Wallace

#15. You still love him."
"I love the boy he was. I could love the man, too. I don't know, and that's why I have to find out."
"Oh, Aimee," she said sadly, pulling me into a tight hug. "Please be careful."
"Too late," I whispered.

Jane Harvey-Berrick