Rays Quotes - Page 18

• If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

  Frederik Pohl

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

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• Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction... It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspiration, Voice, Heaven

  "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

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• I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

  Thomas Harris

  Drs, Found, Humming

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.11, Penguin

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• My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

  Avicii

  Dad, Listening, Fans

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

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• I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

  Avicii

  Brother, Father, Kissing

  "Q&A: Avicii". Interview with Andy Malt, www.completemusicupdate.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Ray Garton never fails to go for the throat!

  Richard Laymon

  Failing, Throat

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• Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

  Terrence Mann

  Baseball, Past, Games

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• With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a retarded hyena.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Sex, Wwe, Looks

  "Line-o-rama: The Rock Says" By Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 2, 2009.

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• A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Analysis, Unexpected, Structure

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

  Albert Pike

  Pouring, Common, Protection

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• In vain produced, all rays return;
  Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice, Evil, Return

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.398, Рипол Классик

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• Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

  Paul Walker

  Men, Style, Digital

  Source: claphamstudiohire.com

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• I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.

  Scott Aukerman

  Mean, Class, World

  "Scott Aukerman of Comedy Death-Ray". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

  Chet Atkins

  Good Friend, Fingers

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• Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Light, Disease, Sun

  Aretaeus (of Cappadocia.), Francis Adams (1972). “Aretaiou Kappadokou Ta Sōzomena: The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian”

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• A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Moon, Magic, Suffering

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press

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• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequer’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirror’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wand’ring where the heart delights to dwell.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Nature, Eye

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• The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Morning, Lasts

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

  Jeff Cooper

  Hurt, Cutting, Men

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• The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

  Nikola Tesla

  Medicine, Rose, Scent

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• I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

  Frederick Reines

  Rivers, Attention, Savannah

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• The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Europe, Matter, Professors

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• Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

  Robert Southey

  Sky, Rainbow, Lovely

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

  Sivananda

  Focus, Mind, Lenses

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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