Rays Quotes - Page 20

• When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

  Ray Charles

  Spiritual, Religious, Singing

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• I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

  Jim Otto

  Thinking, Guy, Branches

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• I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

  Michael Bolton

  Mentor, Proud, Singers

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• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Atmosphere, Answers, Earth

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• You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Small Numbers, Focus, Energy

  Jeffrey Pfeffer (2010). “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

  Roman Jakobson

  Photography, Eras, Sound

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• Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
  All are on their rounds tonight;
  In the wan moon's silver ray,
  Thrives their helter-skelter play.

  Joel Benton

  Halloween, Moon, Play

  Joel Benton, “Halloween”

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• Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Football, Talking

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• I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Air, Ions

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• Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.

  Dennis T. Avery

  Energy, Records, Environment

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• With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
  A thousand times hovering round;
  But round himself, all tender like gold,
  The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Sweet, Butterfly

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.168

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• Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

  Washington Irving

  Clouds, Lust, Genius

  "The Analectic Magazine".

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• And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

  Jimmy Hill

  Football, Cold

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• God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Robert Burns (1819). “The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c”, p.215

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• If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.

  Carl Zimmer

  Crazy, Writing, People

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• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  Patricia Heaton

  Fun, Talking, Making Money

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• Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Technology, Radio, Hoaxes

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Trying, Nerves

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• Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Science, Breathing

  Florence Nightingale (1876). “Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children”, p.68

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• Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil all your divine rays. But the shadow of your veil is luminous and pure. Living Bread of faith, Celestial Food, O mystery of love! My daily Bread, Jesus, is You!... Jesus, it is you who, despite the blasphemies Of the enemies of the Sacrament of love, It is you who want to show how much you love me, Since you make your dwelling in my heart. O Bread of the exiled! Holy and Divine Host, It is no longer I who live, but I live on your life

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever.

  Sheila Carey

  Morning, Heart, Forever

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• Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

  James Earl Jones

  Money, Children, Thinking

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• I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
  With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
  I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
  Now it's a daily word

  Rakim

  Rap, Phrases, Goes On

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• SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
  From the great source of mental Day,
  Free, generous, and refin'd!
  Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
  Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
  And bless my labour'g mind.

  Mark Akenside

  Science, Mind, Treasure

  Mark Akenside, “Hymn To Science”

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• The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Science, Numbers, Appreciate

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