Rays Quotations

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

One of the things they do is bombard (organic materials, such as leather) with gamma rays radiation to kill whatever bacteria might be lurking inside of it, ... In some cases the artifacts are freeze-dried to achieve the same thing. In other cases they have to be placed in a biocide solution that kills the bacteria.

maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

I wouldn't be playing for the Devil Rays or the Kansas City Royals, or something like that,

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

The rain stopped, rays of sun have begun to warm the country, but the danger continues,

He has the chance to become a tremendous major league player. The Devil Rays look forward to him joining what we think may be the best nucleus of young players in all of major league baseball.

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.

Our goal is to make the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - or whatever we'll be called in 2007 - a source of pride for this area.

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Ray Wilkins' day will come one night

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

We were all thinking in the back of our minds, oh God, here we go, the Devil Rays have our number.

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

We are pleased to begin a relationship with one of our country's premier cancer centers. We are particularly excited because of the community outreach initiatives that are integrated into this partnership. We are not only focused on bringing more marketing partners into the Rays family, but also developing relationships such as this, in which the community benefits as well.

We're really appreciative that the Devil Rays are able to help us out in our time of need.

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Cosmic rays are interstellar travelers. People always want to travel to the stars and what's so incredible about these rays is that it's like the stars are coming to us.

Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

With Fan Fest comes the unofficial start to the baseball season. We are pleased to welcome our fans into a new era of Devil Rays baseball. We hope to offer many more opportunities to allow our fans to interact with our players.

Baseball is the American pastime, and the Rays are a part of what makes St. Petersburg a major-league city. The Progress Energy Rays Fan Fest is a great opportunity for fans to meet the players and get ready for the season ahead. We're looking forward to some great games.

When you have a long road to travel, you don't take too many breaks. You just keep on going. We're one or two bad numbers away from reassessment of Fed policy, but we're not there yet. Yes, this number is weak, and yes, it's disappointing, but there are some rays of hope in here.

With (Reiner) in place and the plans we have to establish a presence in Latin America, this will allow the Devil Rays to be a major force in acquiring and developing Latin American talent.

Both of us had a desire to manage back then. Guys who have trained themselves properly, gone to the minor leagues and managed and paid their dues coaching for a considerable amount of time and have a great understanding of the game in all aspects. Getting interviewed as much as both of us had been, you always get that feeling that this is never going to happen. I applaud the Devil Rays for giving him an opportunity to go out there and do it. His background is comparable to anybody's. He had the interim job with the Angels a few times and did a fine job.

Even though I will not be a part of it next year, Rays fans should look forward to the team's continued success. With this core group of young players and other promising talent coming up through the minors, the future is bright for the Devil Rays.

We are very excited to be part of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays family. Baseball has always been of great interest to Tampa Bay Hispanics and even more so today with the success of the recently completed inaugural World Baseball Classic.

Entire lights rays - you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

Your flames are spreading... which are great and are like embodiments of truths. Your rays are reaching the sky.

I'm very excited about rays and this project.

In our outreach efforts and charitable endeavors, the Rays place a great emphasis on helping improve the lives of our area's youths. We are pleased to be able to partner with the education foundations and provide a new element to help our educators motivate their students and make education fun.

No matter what, ... I'll always be a Rays supporter.

This is like acquiring a major free agent. This is a grand slam home run for us as far as the development of our international program. Nobody had produced the kind of talent he has over the past decade. It immediately gives our efforts credibility and in my eyes it assures that the Devil Rays will be a force in international scouting and player development in years to come.

I really think the Devil Rays rushed him to the big leagues, and that set him back. He's a power pitcher with a great change-up. ... He has a world of potential, but we need to be patient with him. If we do this right, he could be a really good pitcher for us.

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

The Durham Bulls franchise has been an important member of the Devil Rays family from our very beginning and has become an American baseball icon. We are pleased that this association will continue.

The gamma rays hit the ionosphere and created more ionization, briefly expanding the ionosphere.

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.