Rays Quotes - Page 25

• Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Artist, Light

  "Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary". Book by Colleen Messina, 2002.

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• To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Light

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.

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• The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

  Sara Quin

  Fate, Sun, Heat

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• I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

  Jake LaMotta

  Sugar, Diabetes

  "The Sugar in the Sweet Science" by Ron Flatter, www.espn.com.

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

  Lucille Clifton

  Loneliness, Eye, Bird

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• ...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Unity, Study

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

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• Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

  Darren Gough

  Men, Skills, Basil

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• Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

  Vince Aletti

  Men, Thinking, Brilliant

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• Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.

  Martin Dugard

  Motivational, Running, Perseverance

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.7, Rodale

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• Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Independent, Light

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Atheism, May, Reason

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.39, 谷月社

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• When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

  Ethan Hawke

  Funny, Love You, People

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• There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.

  Stephen King

  Christian, Block, Views

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• Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.

  Sam Cassell

  Basketball, Dog, Team

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• I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

  Christa Miller

  Keys, Glasses, Two

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• Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

  Ross Kemp

  Military, Real, Sunglasses

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• Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Teenage, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

  Tristan Tzara

  Men, Eggs, Water

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• Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

  Adam Sandler

  Happiness, Sunshine, Blue

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• After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

  Ian Gillan

  Journey, Important, Fans

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

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