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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.


Ray Bradbury

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Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
T.K. THORNE Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
TAHEREH MAFI It is easy to hold on, but it is difficult to let it go.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY I bought some Bradbury borders on eBay, didn't use them all, put what I had left back on eBay and go...
LISA KLOFKORN Hold on tight, Cherie
KRISTEN ASHLEY Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.
NICOLE KIDMAN Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA It's a pretty clear statement that Blu-ray has got some major momentum going on.
ANDY PARSONS Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.
RAY BRADBURY I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
RAY BRADBURY Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love...
RASHEED OGUNLARU The difference between you and me is that I couldn’t let you go while you couldn’t hold on
DALEEN IRSHAID There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affe...
AVIJEET DAS One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI The funniest thing is I listen on some of those bootleg albums, and I remember on two tours I wasn't...
JIMMY PAGE I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.
STEPHEN KING That's on hold now. We'll get 'em tomorrow. This just means it will come a day later.
JEFF WILLIAMS When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...
NEIL GAIMAN You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we ar...
MUNIA KHAN blackmagic on a person http://www.astrodost.com/how-to-do-black-magic-on-a-person blackmagic on a pe...
ASTRODOST Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful f...
TOM ALTHOUSE I knew we would eventually settle down because we were a bit tight in the beginning, but Stephen got...
RANDY WRIGHT I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS You've got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry th...
BOB COLLINS I'm on the phone with Ray all the time. Ray is anxious as heck, but he's got to take care of himself...
JOHN MARSHALL (FOOTBALL COACH) We wanted to stay tight to see how they reacted. We knew if they got a lead, they probably would hol...
JEFF PAFUNDA my hands shake from the discomfort and pain this world puts me throught my eyes burn from crying ove...
AMBER FAITH HUN The day one must stop dreaming on this world. 'Is the day one's breathing will stop on it
LEBOGANG MARUMO That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
ELISABETH ROHM That's a tough one, ... I really couldn't put a finger on it.
ANTHONY HARGROVE You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
RAY BRADBURY Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
RAY BRADBURY VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM It's a pretty clear statement that Blu-ray has got some major momentum going on. From a consumer's p...
ANDY PARSONS Neither lose heart nor hope.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He (Johnson) ended up getting me into several doors I had never gotten into and really single-handed...
BOB BONDI Everybody's worrying about our tailback, but I think we got a good one. He's just got to hold on to ...
BILL DEE And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I'v...
A FINE FRENZY Now when people start to put together the pieces, it sure looks like the damage done to the financia...
BRIAN WESBURY Hear folks talkin' about how some of us got the weight of the world on our shoulders? Fuck, maybe we...
PAT SHAND It's a a pretty clear statement that Blu-ray has got some major momentum going on. From a consumer's...
ANDY PARSONS Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea...
EVA LANG Hold a dove to tight and you'll kill it, hold it to loose and it'll fly away.
STEVEN MONACO Now, thats a pie!
JAMES MAY On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smac...
MICHELLE TEA He used to harp on me every day on how we had fat tight ends.
DOMINIQUE BYRD It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in...
MARILYN FERGUSON She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she c...
GRACE WILLOWS It was not a good day for me. I punctured trying to overtake a motorcycle and then it just got worse...
HIROSHI MASUOKA He changed the grip on my sinker last spring and got it to sink more consistently. He had me put my ...
AARON SMALL ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su...
AMBER FAITH HUN But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD It was nice at the beginning because it was our little secret. Now we've got a bull's-eye on our bac...
MARK LOCKOWITZ Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar.....................
JIMI HENDRIX Never give up. Keep pressing on, hold on tight and fight. Healing is within your reach and is yours ...
CATHY GIPSON A lot of it is on us. We have just got to do better in tight situations. Me included.
ERRON KINNEY At the beginning, I wasn't aware of some of the stuff that goes on. Now, I have a heightened awarene...
DANIELLE JONES Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ I kind of had a one-on-one on the other side. He just rolled through, I had him tight and stuck it w...
COLE BAUBLITZ If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!
DANIEL STERN Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
RAY BRADBURY Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun...
JUNOT DíAZ When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm beca...
JOHN LENNON At times, we got some solid play inside from Sebastian Scheibe. He's beginning to get more aggressiv...
JAMES SINCLAIR Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD Hold fast to the promises of God. And mediate on it day and night.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Dreams are like inserting new doors! Dedication like your door lock , Passion like your bolts and Fa...
GAVHI THERON House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter ...
AVICII I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I...
CALVIN JOHNSON One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger ...
CRISS JAMI No One In the World Care For Others!!!!!!! Thats the real truth of the Life!!!
VIPIN ONGALATHE Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie w...
SAM WELLER The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems ...
ANNA KAVAN I'm Chip Martin," he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Before I could respond,...
JOHN GREEN Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ I think they put so much pressure on themselves to live up to their expectations, and we played like...
DAVE PIETRAMALA You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh...
BETTY GRABLE Truman got some of the lowest poll numbers any president ever got. Now when we look back on Truman, ...
CHARLES JONES Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA You bring it over and hold it tight and take 5 and 6 together in one big arc.
LEIGHTON REESE I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not...
AMY COLLINS Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on bu...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Sant...
SAM WELLER Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON I hope I do (laugh some day) but right now I can't. It was a pretty important game to give the bullp...
DUSTIN MCGOWAN On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'
WILL SMITH If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
STEPHEN KING The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
LOIS LOWRY Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried ...
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RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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