Rays Quotes - Page 3

• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

  Nicolas Cage

  Doctors, Eight, Blood

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• ...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Growing Up, Heart, Machines

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.59, Penguin

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• I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Names, Impact

  "OSCARS Q&A: Tim Burton". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 17, 2013.

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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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• I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Clouds, Glasses, Air

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.13, 谷月社

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• What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Opposites, People

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.156

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• By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Doctors, Office Work

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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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• I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Thinking, Albums

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• I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

  Aimee Mullins

  Running, Sorry, Believe

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• The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

  Van Morrison

  Imagination, Pieces, Firsts

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• The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Average, Usa

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• At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

  Michelle Malkin

  Media, Land, White

  "Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Bakers

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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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• So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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

  Patricia Heaton

  Fun, Talking, Making Money

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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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• 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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