Rays Quotes

• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Health, Doctors

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• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

  Arthur Eddington

  Wise, Light, Weight

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• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Intuition

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• A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Light, Ideas, Differences

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Real, Sorrow, Delicacy

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• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Heart, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2012

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• I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

  Len Wein

  Fire, Lenses, Fingertips

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Reality, Poetry

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• The Saturnian Spirit, Satan...ensouls the...Primary Ray of Deity.

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Deities, Spirit, Satan

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  Bear Grylls

  Rude, Brilliant, Outrageous

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

  Marvin Hagler

  Heart, Fighting, Should Have

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• It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

  Kirk Hammett

  All Time, All Time Favorite, Guitarist

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• I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.

  Hunter Hayes

  Artist, Black, Development

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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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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teacher, School, Years

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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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• Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Sea, Light

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• Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

  Jeff Bridges

  Yeah, Bradbury

  "Jeff Bridges Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Attention, Intense

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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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