Ray Quotes

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

If I have one regret in my career, it is that I did not join Rangers a lot sooner.

I don't see all the movies that come out.

I have worked with some very great directors.

I didn't study acting.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

Talent will come out.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

Life is not always what we think it is.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Be careful who you share your dreams with; not everyone shares your enthusiasm.

All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

The economy is like a machine.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.