Ray Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.

I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

I lust love to play football.

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.

Everything I got, I'm willing to sacrifice

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of