J. Raymond Quotes

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Don't see a thing working-see it finished!

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Why should I be worried about death?

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.