Ray Quotes

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

They love too much that die for love.

Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say “you're one of us now kid”

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.