Misdemeanors in Language ~

Quotations Out of Context

Ray Bradbury and Gene Roddenberry ~ Two Fantastic Writers

Quote One ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Review in print November 1979

It looks like a dream book. Then you suddenly remember it’s all real. Then the long march from the rim of the cave to the edge of the cliff where we flung ourselves off and built our wings on the way down quickens to focus. It’s all here, in a building, in a book.

Quote Two ~ Ray Bradbury ~ October 1986 UC Irvine Lecture

“Jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.”

Quote Three ~ Spencer ~ Here

“Jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.”

Quote Four ~ Gene Roddenberry ~ Off the cuff

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”

“The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

BY RAY BRADBURYOCT. 26, 1991 12 AM PT

Gene Roddenberry asked me to be part of the “Star Trek” family as a writer 25 years ago. He showed me the pilot, and I looked at it and liked it but said at that time that I’ve never been able to adapt other people’s characters–no matter how much I admire them. So, one of the sad things of my life is I was never able to participate in the love and joy that made “Star Trek” so special.

Gene Roddenberry

“For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn’t until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, “No, we don’t.”