Ray Quotes

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

Almost everything is like a machine.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.

When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation's lower than expected, bonds go up.

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

Treat your life like a game.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

The only thing that follows work is results.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.