Rays Quotes - Page 18

• But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Singers, Choir

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• When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Attitude, Unique

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• ... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace

  Richard Betts

  Music, Strong, Pride

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• I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

  Steve Kanaly

  Character, Opportunity, Play

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• I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

  Steve Kanaly

  Thinking, Roles

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• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  Dakota Fanning

  Morning, Shoes, Perfect

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• Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Believe, Sugar, Said

  "The sugar in the sweet science" by Ron Flatter, www.espn.com.

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• Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Freedom, Distance, Science

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• Ray Rice was beat up last year

  Phil Simms

  Years, Lasts, Beats

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• Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am sure that future generations of animators will continue to look to him for inspiration.

  Joe Letteri

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Joy

  "Hollywood Pays Tribute To Ray Harryhausen" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

  John Logie Baird

  Important, Television, Items

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• There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

  John Logie Baird

  Mean, Television, No Hope

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• Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

  Bill Hicks

  Doe, Patterns, Seems

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• A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

  Bruno Rossi

  Men, Feelings, Reason Why

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• Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

  Blake Shelton

  Artist, Grandpa, Want

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• Theres always next year, ... except, you know, for Ray Romano.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Years, Next Year, Knows

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• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

  Myrna Loy

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humble, Animal, Men

  1880 Man's Place in Nature.

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• There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

  Johnny Winter

  Two, Blue, People

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.

  Amy Poehler

  Cities, New Orleans, Nuts

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Animal, Clouds, Air

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• James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

  Michael Jackson

  Music, Strong, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 29, 2013

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• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Axes, Ions

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