The Illustrated Man Quotes

#1. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

Zack Snyder

#2. It wasn't going places. It was being between ... Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.

Ray Bradbury

#3. As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Aristotle.

#5. Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Richard Jefferies

#6. Her skin literally glowed. It was as if she had swallowed the moon and couldn't keep the light from pouring out of her.

Liz Schulte

#7. I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Oh, death in space was most humorous.

Ray Bradbury

#9. I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

Mark Dvoretsky

#10. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.

Peter Carey

#11. War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror

Ray Bradbury

#12. Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

David Berlinski

#13. There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.

Ray Bradbury

#14. I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

Kristen Bell

#15. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#16. There is no force on earth greater than the fear jocks have of homosexuals. None. It's like the Jewish fear of the Nazis, except the complete opposite with regard to who is beating the crap out of whom. So I guess it's more like the Nazi fear of the Jews.

Jesse Andrews

#17. There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

Meg Cabot

#18. I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.

Peter Sis

#19. Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Tucker Max

#21. I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his and pissed all over it - made it into one of the worst movies ever made.

Rod Serling

#22. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

Jacqueline Wilson

#23. I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Ray Bradbury

#24. Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Alfie Kohn

#25. The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.

Ray Bradbury