Ray Quotes

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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

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

Art is doing something you really believe in.

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

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

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

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

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

Wedlock is a padlock.

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.