Raymond Davis, Jr. quote: "I was educated in the Washington public schools and attended the University of Maryland as a day student, graduating in 1938 with a degree in chemistry. After working for the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, for a year, I returned to the University of Maryland to take a Master's degree before going on to Yale to pursue a doctorate."

Every time four protons are turned into a helium nucleus, two neutrinos are produced. These neutrino...
RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.

In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which wa...
RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.

The sun derives its energy from fusion reactions in which hydrogen is transformed into helium.
RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

You don't swing where you sleep.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some frien...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage a...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big,...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to ...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they th...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with you...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this count...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
DAVIS LOVE, JR.

When it's breezy, hit it easy.
DAVIS LOVE, JR.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with you...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

When it's breezy, hit it easy.
DAVIS LOVE JR.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect few...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can'...
WILL DAVIS JR.

You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy n...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy n...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone aro...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the swee...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL

You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude t...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His functi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scho...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Desire creates the power.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can ...
RAYMOND SPRUANCE

The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the ma...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN

Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
RAYMOND BROWN

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
RAYMOND LOEWY

Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targ...
RAYMOND KETHLEDGE

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
RAYMOND LOEWY

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
RAYMOND CARVER

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other...
RAYMOND LOEWY

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned mos...
RAYMOND KELLY

Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf hol...
RAYMOND BONNER

Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter...
RAYMOND BONNER

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the re...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in ever...
RAYMOND MOODY

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I cou...
RAYMOND CARVER

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job...
RAYMOND AUBRAC

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yours...
RAYMOND BONNER

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u...
RAYMOND MOODY

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the othe...
RAYMOND LOEWY

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
RAYMOND LINDQUIST

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG

To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

California, the department store state.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG

I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly.....
RAYMOND JOHANSEN

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any sta...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking a...
RAYMOND ARROYO

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, footbal...
JONATHAN RAYMOND

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR

Hope is simply an anchor that we hold on to, as a way of envisioning the brightness of our future.
RAYMOND OBENG

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably...
RAYMOND LOEWY

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would descr...
RAYMOND LOEWY

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the pr...
RAYMOND MARTIN

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she...
RAYMOND BURR

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us ...
RAYMOND CARVER

People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of peopl...
ERIC RAYMOND

It's a new role for me. In the past, I've played partners that were the less emotional leader. Now, ...
LISA RAYMOND

If you are doing well, it is an incredible lifestyle.
LISA RAYMOND

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
RAYMOND ARON

The journey of a biased investigation leads to a destination of biased findings.
RAYMOND OBENG

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
RAYMOND CHANDLER

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the m...
RAYMOND CARVER

If all married men and women will appreciate and cherish their partners' sex organs no matter how th...
RAYMOND OBENG

Truth unveiled is as harmful as the sickness that overpowers all efficacious medications.
RAYMOND OBENG

Naturally, nobody seems not to enjoy working. But it is working harder, and going the extra mile in ...
RAYMOND OBENG

If you want to get fired easily as an employee, behave as if you were the C.E.O of your organization...
RAYMOND OBENG

I am prepared to do any 'dirty', hard job today for any good money, whilst I fix my eyes on God for ...
RAYMOND OBENG

Raymond Davis, Jr.

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