Burning In Fahrenheit 451 Quotes & Sayings

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. — William James

No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best. — J.R. Miller

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor. — Joyce Meyer

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done. — Ken Robinson

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids? — Eric Braeden

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way? — Isabelle Holland

When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people. — Ray Bradbury

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers. — Walter Kirn

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.' — Dan O'Brien

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs. — Charles Baudelaire

The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby — Priyavrat Thareja

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar. — John Perry