Ray Quotes

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

Beautify your breath - beautify your life.

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

Those who don't build must burn.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.