When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.


Ray Conniff

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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
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you ...
RAY KROC
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
JOHN RAY
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biolo...
RAY KURZWEIL
The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper ...
RAY GUY
I think when I first realized that something interesting had happened was probably in 1994. There wa...
RAY TOMLINSON
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY