Ray Quotes

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

The great teams find a way to win.

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

No one to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

Nature did not make me willowy.

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

My first job with a network was General Hospital, and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

A day without writing was a little death.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.