“ Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 285
“ Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I'm a terrible pessimist… I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope. ”
- Lou Harrison- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. ”
- William Thomson- Copy
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“ A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. ”
- Irish Blessing- Copy
- 631
“ But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2K
“ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 87
“ Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. ”
- Sarah Knowles Bolton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every ray of light that we shed upon others is reflected upon ourselves and every gift to the needy, if prompted by a right motive, will result in blessing to the giver. ”
- Ellen Gould White- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green that it wakes needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important. ”
- Tom Hanks- Copy
- 3K
“ The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie "answers" questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery… ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it. ”
- Tim Burton- Copy
- 2K
“ Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. ”
- Ray Charles- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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… ”
- Ray Charles- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In a way, I don't think that in the end when you look back over the work - I think the work is more important. I'm very happy that I was able to be a major collaborator in such a great body of work. And obviously the majority of the writing was Ray, but I think it was a little bit sad that I didn't get credited with more input on a lot of the important songs. ”
- Dave Davies- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable. ”
- Dave Davies- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. ”
- Dave Davies- Copy
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