Ray Bradbury Quote Extra Credit by Kacey M.

"we have our arts so we don't die of truth"

-Ray Bradbury

To me this is really true and so honest and real because without arts and creativity this world would be a lifeless voidof hate and brutally honest people. Creativity to many is an outlet if it's writing or listening to music thi. This world was built up by arts and the love of the individuality of each of them and Ray Bradbury I think gets it and that's why he partially wrote F451 because he wanted to show society thsat creating technology is okay but don't let it interfere with our creative flow and the importance of actually sitting down and working on a poem or painting a picture and to never forget that , that is actually possible and the importance of it.

-Kacey M. Pd. 6 12.7.12

Better Gets Worse By Aki M.

"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."
                                                                                                               Ray Bradbury
         This quote to me means that when technology gets better people get worse. Ten years ago computers were big screens and you could not leave the room with that big blocky machine. Now in this day and age you can use you phone and computer anywhere and do anything without anybody seeing it. Sadly this cycle will go on forever like this quote said.
           

Thanks

Thanks for the great blog entries!  Such wise comments and perspectives, with a random nugget of this and that thrown in for good measure.  Keep reading and commenting!

p.s. if you're looking for an awesome blog full of reading suggestions from a gal with excellent literary taste (she's currently a sophomore at Murray High School), check out Read My Print!  I highly recommend it. 

Meaning Behind the Words by Candice Olson

On legacy, through a character in Fahrenheit 451:

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there."

 

This quote is inspiring to me because behind it there is a lot of meaning and logic to it. I also beleive that this quote has double meaning behind it when the quote says "Or a garden planted. Something your hand touch some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die." I think that also means the creation of life. When you die and your child is left behind, some people can look at that child and see you or when the child see's it's reflection it can see you. That child is the tree or that flower that you planted in the soil of the earth.
-Candice Olson

Connections by Josh James

For the students that have read the book theif and are now reading Fahrenheit 451. You may have noticed some similarity in the two books, for one the value of books them selfs, weather it be good or bad. The burning of books, and how books are taken and saved from the deadly flames; Even when it is illegal because of the topic doesn't further someones means. Instead they burn them and destroy them.

The Blizzard doesn't last forever...it just seems so.

"[S]tarting when I was fifteen I began to send short stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two days before they got them! I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. Then, during the late forties, I actually began to sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States and also in Sweden! So … take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so."

-Ray Bradbury

This quote speaks to me like a microphone in the ear. Feelings have recently come towards me days before I had started reading Fahrenheit 451. They were questions almost exactly like the ones Clarrisse asks Guy Montag. As I began reading and noticing how much of a coincidence it was I just laughed. I laughed and laughed and laughed until I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. These feelings that flooded me before had brought me down and pulled me back out.

This quotes sums up everything I need to take to heart right now, I may have been in the dark with not one hand reaching out towards me, but I'm not the only one in there. Sooner or later I realized others in the same position had found me and I, them. This quote just gave me so much inspiration for the exact spot I am climbing out of. I thank you Mr. Bradbury.



-Uyen 

Subject: The Giraffe Test

Giraffe Test There are 4 questions. Don’t miss one. 1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? Stop and think about it and decide on your answer before you scroll down.

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way. 2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? Wrong Answer. Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.. 3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend .... Except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer : The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory.. Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities. 4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer:? You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes. According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the Professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively proves the theory that most professionals do not have the brains of a four-year-old. This is something that was sent to me by a friend of mine. I hope you enjoy it.

By: Gwyn S.
 

Weird vs. Normal vs. Different vs. Same
         I have discovered something. When people say, "You're weird." Most people who like to get smart with them say something along the lines of, " Well technically speaking, everyone is weird in some way so technically speaking no one is normal." I have found this to be ultimately false.

         When people say that no one is NORMAL, what they are really saying is that there is no NORMAL. My theory is this: EVERYONE is NORMAL. Everyone wants to be WEIRD. Everyone is the SAME. Everyone wants to be DIFFERENT. See I have met so many people who say that they are crazy fans of this so and so band or this so and so television show. I have met so many people who say that they are doing ridiculous things or that say that they like the most peculiar things or they spend their spare time doing things that no one would ever really do.
         Why do these people do these things? It isn't necessarily because they like the things they are doing or enjoy these things that they are becoming. They just want to be DIFFERENT. People want to stand out. They want to show their originality. They want to be someone who everyone else will remember. Someone who will be remembered for more than just the kid in your math class that you can't recall the name of.
         I am not saying that all human beings are exactly the SAME. I am just saying that there is a NORMAL, and everyone starts out that way, and if you trace everyone back to their roots, they're are about as NORMAL as NORMAL can get. People say that there is no real defined terms for NORMAL. I say that in fact there most certainly is.
         See, this is how this works. Everyone is generally the SAME.  Each person subconsciously realizes that they are the SAME as everyone else. With our human rebellious nature, we all develop a desire to become DIFFERENT. So people begin trying interests in newer things that others wouldn't necessarily be interested in. Because of this, everyone ends up being a bit DIFFERENT.  Then there are those who decide that they need to be more DIFFERENT, because just plain DIFFERENT  is not DIFFERENT enough. So the people who wish to be more than DIFFERENT, try to make themselves more DIFFERENT.  This higher amount of DIFFERENT, is the definition of WEIRD.
         Why do we think people are WEIRD? We think people are weird, solely because they are more DIFFERENT, than we are. I say everyone is NORMAL at heart. However, everyone is DIFFERENT appearing to everyone else.
         Therefore everyone is NORMAL. It does have a definition. The "WEIRD" people are the ones that are supposedly trying to be more DIFFERENT  than the rest of us. I applaud them for being ahead of everyone else. Just make sure that in the process of increasing your WEIRDNESS, that you are still comfortably you.

By: Some one who just wants to state their opinion. I don't think anyone is weird, is that a crime? :D
 

Love what you do. Nate Christensen

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life." -Ray Bradbury


I really, really like this quote! It reminds me of something my parents always said, that I should always do what I wanted to do and to not let others change my perspective in things. Ray Bradbury says it perfectly though, that we should all do what we want or what we love to do. I think we can all try to do what we love and like Ray Bradbury said, imagination should be the center of your life. Those are some very true words.

Best Motivational Quotes Found From Google, By: Gaby Galvan

1. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.- Zig Ziglar

 

 

2. None of us is as dumb as all of us.- Unknown

 

3. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.- Unknown

 

 

4.To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.
- Frank Sinatra

 

 

5.Everyone is entitled to their own incorrect opinion.- Brian Vaszily

 

 

6. I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
- Henny Youngman

 

 

7. I didn’t fall. The floor just needed a hug.

-Unknown

 

 

8.It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
-Steven Weinberg

 

 

9.Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working with one.
-Bill Gates

 

10. Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts, while others come into our lives and make us wanna leave footprints on their face.
-Unknown

Love what you do. Aja Mills

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, want what you love."

This speaks loud to me because soccer is my passion and I would'nt anyone to tell me to quit what I have been playing all my life and basing like almost half of my career on it. 


 

WHOA! Thats cool! -Harrison Hays

We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth."

-Ray Bradbury

This is awesome. It is very blunt and true. It doesn't involve any convoluted descriptions of arts, it just plainly comes out and says the truth.

Bradbury By Robert Ruben

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life." ~Ray Bradbury

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there." ~Ray Bradbury

These quotes are awesome. The first quote is so true. As an artist, I don't care what others tell me to draw because when I draw, I improvise the entire time and the outcome is a mystery. From That is where the fun of drawing comes.

The last one is just plain "cute" and a bit motivational. It makes you want do something important in this world.

Baconator- Shaun Peretto

        To me, poetry is like a Triple Baconator combo with a large fry and Coca-Cola. It is warm and juicy in the center and it makes you cry when you finish it. It may look like it was a waste of time at first but, when you take a bite your mouth feels like Zeus struck you with a lightning bolt.

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

Ray Bradbury Bailee Jensen

"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country — we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."

- Ray Bradbury

I love this one because by reading you know now have an education of life and you know how to vote. If  you don't read then you have no way to decide. We really need to keep it a democracy of readers because it seems better that way.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

You only have one life to live. By, Jessica Christenson

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."

We should be the only control of our life. Why take someone else's point of view on something that you do when it's your life and only yours. We all hear the phrase: "YOLO" at times this phrase can be overpublished, over used, and let's just say annoying. We only have this one life to live so why not live it well? Do you want to live a life full of things that you wanted others to believe you were? Something so fake and useless that the only person gaining from it is others? I do not believe so. Live the life that you want to live. Do the things you and only you want to do. Don't take other people's opinions to heart. Where is that going to get them when it's not even affecting you? Love and regret. Dream and repent. Remember that people that mind don't matter, and things that matter don't mind.
 

Space Llamas in Space -Parker Simmons

Computer Tech is one of my easiest classes, I tend to finish my assignment fairly quickly, leaving me with all this time on my hands. What do I do with all of this time? Good question. I often open Microsoft paint and spill random thoughts to the pages. Today however, I did not have enough time to paint a whole entire new painting. Once presented with this predicament, I figured I could take one of the pictures I am using for another project in another class and transform it into something entirely new.
This is what came out.

Above a few more.

"Do What You Love..." by Sydney Durrant

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."

-Ray Bradbury

I really like this quote--especially when it's coming from Ray Bradbury--because it describes the way everyone should be, and the way Ray Bradbury was.  You should be doing something you love with your life, without worrying about what people are going to think about you.  Don't let people's opinions hold you back.  As Dr. Seuss said, "Don't be afraid to be who you are and say what you think, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."  You shouldn't be afraid to dream, and once you have a dream, you shouldn't be afraid to follow it, even if the world laughs at you.  They don't matter anyways. 

Ray Bradbury Quote- Hannah Mismash

"That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you." -Ray Bradbury

It's saying that you're in control of your thoughts.  You can control what you think and come up with new things.  I love this quote because it's funny because he related to things to each other that normally people wouldn't think to compare to each other.

Ray Bradbury Quote: Anna Heaton

"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures." -Ray Bradbury

         I really love this quote, because I think it really describes our society. True, there is trash and horrible things, but for every piece of garbage that we find, there is a treasure somewhere in the world that can block out the horrors. A lot of times people think that there's nothing to live for, and that life is something that is to be tolerated, instead of enjoyed. What they don't realize is that if they look hard enough, there are so many things to be happy about! Our society would be a lot better if we didn't take anything for granted and realized how wonderful it is to simply be alive.

Ray Bradbury- Rheannon Longhurst

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there."  -Ray Bradbury

I love this quote! To me it means that all of the stuff we buy or make, won't really matter when we die if it didn't touch a person's soul in some way. So, in our lives that should be our main goal in all that we do: to let it change a person for the better just from meeting us or from something we have created.

Bailey Kirk is Quoting Ray Bradbury

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life." -Ray Bradbury

This quote is a quote I chose for extra credit. That's it.

Just kidding! I love the content of this quote, it stood out to me out of all the others. Always do what you love and, always listen to what your heart is telling you. Imagination is they key in life; it will help you succeed in your future. Don't listen to what others tell you you love.

Ray Bradbury quote: Alley Meriwether

"Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."
                                                                                -Ray Bradbury
I chose this quote because it stood out the most to me. Ray Bradbury really believed in living your life to the fullest. He thought you should do what you want with your life and not do what everyone else wants you to. I believe that too. It's a very inspiring quote. Ray Bradbury was a very inspiring man. He still is. His memory still lives on. 

A Good Day to post my feelings: Avery M. Cushing III

Today I woke up and got out of bed i was really tired and when i got off my bed i stubbed my toe and said OW that hurts dude and then i ate cherrioes with honey on them and then i got in the shower it was warm and then i got dressed in my designerr skirt and raninto a wheat thresher and then i said OW that hurts.

>and then i open the door

>get on the floor

>Everybody walk the Dinosaur

aftar i get house i do my own laundry, much blood, pic related.