Ray Bradbury Quotes About Balance

Quotes about: Balance

• I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

  Ray Bradbury

  Selfish, Night, Waiting

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 151, 1957.

• Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

  Ray Bradbury

  Promise, Balance, Twenties

• Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

  Ray Bradbury

  Balance, Fiction, Cliffs

  Introduction to "The Circus of Dr. Lao" by Charles G. Finney, 1956.

• Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

  Ray Bradbury

  Balance, Done, Fats

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