When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.
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Related Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living. JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. JAMIE FOXX Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer... LORETTA LYNN Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY I like Ray Charles, though. KYLE NELSON When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in ... QUINCY JONES I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed. AARON NEVILLE When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, li... DIPLO He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ... STEVE WINWOOD When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt ... PETER HELLER Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not... TAYLOR HACKFORD I listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat Cole, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles.... JAMES DARREN When I first started at KJHK it was this exalted entity to me. It was like I had finally found somet... KYLE GARRISON When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sa... TAYLOR HACKFORD It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do... WILLIE NELSON I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set ... JASON SCHWARTZMAN I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set ... JASON SCHWARTZMAN you weren't mine to begin with. IAIN S. THOMAS When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had th... THOMAS GIBSON We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's... BRITTANY HOWARD I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room,... JOHNNY MATHIS You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want... DEYTH BANGER It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL I still really like it. I knew I had to do a lot to get ready for this season. I started skating in ... LUC ROBITAILLE I had a lot of problems like this when I was at Jaguar and today was his turn, it happens, ANTONIO PIZZONIA I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performe... ROB MCCLURE He called for it and it stopped. As soon as I had her in my sight I started shaking. I've done some ... AMY MLINAR Someone did this for me when I was young, ... Someone - I don't know who - started a community garde... DIANE MILLER When I see something, I go for it. JACKEE HARRY Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is... DEYTH BANGER God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch... NORAH JONES John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I ... JOHN LEGEND The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in ... CHRIS BROWN My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane'... TILDA SWINTON I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. QUINCY JONES It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without ... QUINCY JONES When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX When I started this business I had nothing, I was at the bottom. What I really had was my self confi... BATYA MAMAN SABAG I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr... DAVID SHEPHERD There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, ... CHARLES SCHWAB I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary ... DRAKE BELL People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO The first three innings it felt like I had a groove going. Then I started elevating and I can't attr... BARTOLO COLON I started this last year when I was called up for the first time. I like doing it myself. Opening Da... BRANDON WATSON I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that th... RANDY HARRISON It looked like I had enough room to get by Jeff and I think that Charles had enough room on the othe... ERIC CURRAN When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding ... SAM DONALDSON Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like ... ERIC VARGAS It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of ... SHAWN FANNING I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I... LEAH LABELLE When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s.... KEHLANI I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my da... DAN AUERBACH I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co... AVRIL LAVIGNE Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take c... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY I hoped to see a lot of people, but I had no idea it was going to look like this. As far as I could ... BOB COLAROSSI When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which wa... EMMA WATSON At first I felt like a cheater. But I looked around, and everybody was doing it. Now it's not as bla... KEN CAMINITI I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril... AHMET ERTEGUN When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w... PERCY SLEDGE When I first started working for the sociopaths and mercenaries in Washington, D.C. in 1958 I had to... BOBBY W. MILLER When I started this, it was municipal all the way. I had no hint that the Seneca Nation would be int... MICHAEL DOWD I started by myself. I wish I had someone to help me when I got started. Having someone who knows ho... BRIAN MEYERS Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I al... TYLER OAKLEY I try to always be there for him, as a friend, and from a musical level. Like I said, I want to make... RICHIE SAMBORA The knee had been bothering me for a while. I tried to play on it (in the playoffs), but it started ... FAT LEVER He had a very good trip, and it was a good ride. I saw when he got position he was in good shape. I ... EDUARDO INDA I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over... JEFF BAENA When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't s... AHMET ERTEGUN
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. RAY CHARLES Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. RAY CHARLES 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 There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain... RAY CHARLES 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 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 I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. RAY CHARLES Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea... RAY CHARLES I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h... RAY CHARLES I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat... RAY CHARLES With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so... RAY CHARLES There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. RAY CHARLES I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to conta... RAY CHARLES Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes c... RAY CHARLES My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. ... RAY CHARLES What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a forc... RAY CHARLES I hear like you see -- like that hummingbird outside that window for instance. RAY CHARLES I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a ... RAY CHARLES Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit... RAY CHARLES What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can ... RAY CHARLES I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, li... RAY CHARLES My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest s... RAY CHARLES You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. R... CHARLES RAY There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. RAY CHARLES I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear. RAY CHARLES Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm on... RAY CHARLES I don't think any of us really KNOWS why we're here. But I think we're suppose to BELIEVE we're here... RAY CHARLES There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you a... RAY CHARLES What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can l... RAY CHARLES Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow som... RAY CHARLES I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h... RAY CHARLES I still sit and wonder, how can we have war in these times? RAY CHARLES McQueen and us, we always seem to have a playoff-type game. One mistake can cost you the game. RAY CHARLES It's great for families - we really take care to make sure all of our entertainment is family approp... RAY CHARLES [Dear B.E.: The song is] Night Time Is the Right Time, ... Ray Charles: Ultimate Hits Collection. RAY CHARLES [Georgia on his mind: After watching] Ray, ... Georgia on My Mind. RAY CHARLES (Night Time Is) The Right Time. RAY CHARLES 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 My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It reall... RAY CHARLES I loved those cats at Atlantic. They were the only record guys who never told me what to do. Ahmet (... RAY CHARLES What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so... RAY CHARLES There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me... RAY CHARLES There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. RAY CHARLES Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the ... RAY CHARLES I hope this new move helps the community recognize the services they (CIMVAC) provide, CHARLES RAY I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... RAY CHARLES There was an obvious demand. CHARLES RAY I actually see him as ushering in a new era of hopefully less tumultuous Cambodian politics, CHARLES RAY Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation, CHARLES RAY It's a good location and good move for them, and I wish them luck. CHARLES RAY 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 The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a s... RAY MANZAREK 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. 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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 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 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 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