Ray Quotes

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Just playing more, I'm more comfortable. A big part is the boys are giving me a lead a lot of nights. Playing more has just let me be more comfortable in different situations in the game.

Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect system.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.