Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
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 When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while ...
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.
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 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