Rays Quotes - Page 17

• What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Lovely, Gone

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Flower, Dark

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Funny, Powerful, Naps

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Morning, Moon

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.623, Macmillan

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• Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

  David Bowie

  Eye, Gun, Space

  Song: Moonage Daydream, 1972

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• When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Animal, Light

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• Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

  Woody Allen

  Eye, Machines, Dentist

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• When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Dark, Light

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.169, Modern Library

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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• It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sunshine, Men, Can Do

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. "God of medicine, at your service.

  Rick Riordan

  Medicine, Perfect, Battle

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• It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

  Mark Millar

  Loneliness, Perfect, Parent

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• I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Father, Heart

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• He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

  Kim Edwards

  Heart, Vision, Kind

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

  Rachel Caine

  Vision, Vampire, Monsters

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• You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Would Be, Barristers

  Charles Dickens (1884). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.72

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• Relax, Medea. We’ve come to see your mother. (Tory) Your funeral. (Medea) It’s always so good to see you, too. You’re just such a ray of happy sunshine. I so look forward to all our interactions. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Sunshine, Funeral

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• The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

  Gena Showalter

  Moon, Buffets, Golden

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Playing with Fire”, p.317, Harlequin

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• Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Buddhism, Simple

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.34, Penguin

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• ...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Growing Up, Heart, Machines

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.59, Penguin

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• So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Writing, Past, Fiction Stories

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