#ow

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#busy #downward #everything #fighting #go

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#being #constantly #cups #filled #how

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#find #how #jump #out #unfold

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#down #during #everything #finish #go

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dreams #grow #grow up #like #myths

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#i #life #mania #my life #off

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#born #face #feel #how #into

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#borrowing #energy #excite #excited #get

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts