Ray Manzarek quote: "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."

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a s...
RAY MANZAREK

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put yo...
RAY MANZAREK

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. ...
RAY MANZAREK

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie wi...
RAY MANZAREK

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psyched...
RAY MANZAREK

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a...
RAY MANZAREK

I think I'm a very poor piano player.
RAY MANZAREK

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we...
RAY MANZAREK

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits a...
RAY LAMONTAGNE

I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th...
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the thi...
VANESSA RAY

Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
VANESSA RAY

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ...
RAY BRADBURY

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog prob...
RAY COMFORT

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bo...
RAY COMFORT

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s...
RAY KURZWEIL

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
RAY BRADBURY

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ...
RAY LEWIS

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
RAY LEWIS

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I h...
RACHAEL RAY

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everythi...
RACHAEL RAY

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
RACHAEL RAY

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry an...
RACHAEL RAY

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are ke...
RACHAEL RAY

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With ...
RACHAEL RAY

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when...
RACHAEL RAY

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quota...
RACHAEL RAY

When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I...
RACHAEL RAY

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
RACHAEL RAY

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and ...
RACHAEL RAY

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd h...
RACHAEL RAY

When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in ...
RACHAEL RAY

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
RACHAEL RAY

You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
RACHAEL RAY

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 ho...
RACHAEL RAY

The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
RACHAEL RAY

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying '...
RACHAEL RAY

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spice...
RACHAEL RAY

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
RACHAEL RAY

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAY

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while other...
MAN RAY

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
MAN RAY

All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...
MAN RAY

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
RAY SANTIAGO

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the ani...
RAY PARK

One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weeken...
RAY NAGIN

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, i...
RAY NAGIN

Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and ...
AMIT RAY

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for ...
ALLAN RAY

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...
AMIT RAY

In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.
AMIT RAY

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainl...
SATYAJIT RAY

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a '...
RAY KURZWEIL

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors...
RAY BRADBURY

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

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people...
RAY BRADBURY

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are...
RAY BROWN

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great...
RAY COMFORT

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother'...
RAY BRADBURY

Beware the autumn people
RAY BRADBURY

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at ...
RAY BRADBURY

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating...
RAY COMFORT

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.
RAY KROC

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bo...
SATYAJIT RAY

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the f...
RAY DAVIES

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
RAY STEVENS

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought...
RAY BRADBURY

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds g...
RAY DALIO

Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through ...
RAY BEDARD

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. F...
RAY BRADBURY

Yes, it is totally acceptable that for any given country to become assured of its safety, it has to ...
RAY ANYASI

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac...
AMIT RAY

A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.
AMIT RAY

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ...
RAY BRADBURY

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...
RAY BRADBURY

Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play groun...
AMIT RAY

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step ...
AMIT RAY

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.
AMIT RAY

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.
AMIT RAY

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.
AMIT RAY

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage...
AMIT RAY

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...
AMIT RAY

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
AMIT RAY

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
RAY PRINCE

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
JOHN RAY

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.
AMIT RAY

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Hig...
AMIT RAY

Children are poor men's riches.
JOHN RAY

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
RAY BRADBURY

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also tur...
RAY LAMONTAGNE

Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It...
RAY BRADBURY

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
RAY BRADBURY

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When...
RAY BRADBURY

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...
RAY BRADBURY

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
RAY BRADBURY

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
AMIT RAY

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...
RAY BRADBURY

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...
RAY BRADBURY

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around."
"Oh, they don't miss me," she ...
RAY BRADBURY

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom o...
AMIT RAY

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
AMIT RAY

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...
AMIT RAY

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"...
RAY BRADBURY

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.
AMIT RAY

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...
AMIT RAY

Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently.
AMIT RAY

Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.
AMIT RAY

You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.
AMIT RAY

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
RAY CHARLES

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

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.
AMIT RAY

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of yo...
AMIT RAY

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURY

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...
RAY BRADBURY

Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.
AMIT RAY

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
AMIT RAY

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n...
AMIT RAY

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
RAY LAMONTAGNE

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
AMIT RAY

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see ...
RAY BRADBURY

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...
RAY BRADBURY

You have planted many seeds in the garden of possibilities. Meditation is the art removing the weeds...
AMIT RAY

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at ...
RAY CHARLES

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...
MAN RAY

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
RAY KROC

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ours...
RAY BRADBURY

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
JOHN RAY

Life is trying things to see if they work.
RAY BRADBURY

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
RAY BRADBURY

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAY

And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as ...
RAY BRADBURY

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious ...
JOHN RAY

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...
RAY BRADBURY

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find somethi...
RAY BRADBURY

My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on...
RAY BRADBURY

Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am de...
RAY BRADBURY

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
RAY KROC

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...
RAY BRADBURY

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessi...
MAN RAY

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
RAY KROC

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
RAY PRINCE

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
RAY KROC

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind...
RANDOLPH RAY

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain...
RAY CHARLES

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...
RAY BRADBURY

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

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
RAY BRADBURY

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're ...
RAY KROC

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to ...
RAY BRADBURY

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every nigh...
RAY BRADBURY

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have ba...
RAY BRADBURY

A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together...
RAY BRADBURY

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to lov...
RAY BRADBURY

Hell is paved with good intentions.
JOHN RAY

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...
RAY BRADBURY

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The...
RAY BRADBURY

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURY

We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool ...
RAY BRADBURY

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint...
RAY BRADBURY

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. ...
RAY BRADBURY

The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people r...
RAY BRADBURY

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's mor...
RAY BRADBURY

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
RAY KROC

We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves ove...
RAY BRADBURY

Many without punishment, none without sin.
JOHN RAY

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
RAY BRADBURY

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
JOHN RAY

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or...
RAY CHARLES

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
RAY BANDY

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. ...
RAY BRADBURY

You learn something every day if you pay attention.
RAY LEBLOND

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to k...
RAY BRADBURY

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through s...
AMIT RAY

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...
AMIT RAY

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows any...
RAY BRADBURY

I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air c...
RAY NAGIN

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization...
RAY WALSTON

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I bo...
RAY CHARLES

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
RAY CHARLES

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship...
RAY BRADBURY

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I...
RAY BRADBURY

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
RAY STEVENSON

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now br...
RAY WINSTONE

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
RAY ROMANO

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machi...
RAY BRADBURY

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc g...
RAY BRADBURY

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once ...
RAY ROMANO

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and wi...
RAY BRADBURY

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
RAY BRADBURY

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.

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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.

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