Ray Quotes

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

No person ever died that had a family.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

It was a pleasure to burn.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

My job is to help you fall in love.

The only limitations we face are the ones we place upon ourselves

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.