Rays Quotes - Page 14

• I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  August, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

  Steve Martin

  Love Is, Fearless, His Love

  Steve Martin (2000). “Shopgirl: A Novella”, Hyperion

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• I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

  Christine Quinn

  Issues, Talking, Perspective

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• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  Warren Zevon

  Father, Thinking, Boxers

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• I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

  Stevie Wonder

  Reading, Thinking, Boston

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Leave Me Alone, Leaving Me, Me Alone

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• As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Knowledge, Virtue, Reason

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 366), 1895.

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• All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.

  Sylvia Earle

  Children, Ocean, Sharks

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• Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

  John Henry Newman

  Beautiful, Angel, Light

  John Henry Newman (2016). “Apologia pro Vita Sua”, p.100, John Henry Newman

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Bakers

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• There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

  Michio Kaku

  Gun, Force Fields, Bullets

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

  Norah Jones

  Two, Feet, Honor

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• Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

  Dick Schaap

  Fake People, Book, Writing

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• Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Sun, Awareness, Extending

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• I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Science, Self

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• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lonely, Cheer, Loneliness

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Light, Degrees

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1258, Delphi Classics

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• X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Two, Years

  "Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays". "New York World" Newspaper, August 3, 1903.

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• When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.4566, Catholic Way Publishing

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• To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

  Rob Ray

  Fighting, Hockey, Doctors

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• Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
  Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
  The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
  On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
  Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
  Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Eye, Sky, Play

  Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
  Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
  Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
  We frisk away,
  Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
  To joy and play.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Morning, Play

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.18

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