Ray Quotes
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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More Ray Quotes
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,And guide my lonely wayTo where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.
Oliver Goldsmith— Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— St. 14. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
Bacon expresses theological and moral truths in terms of mathematical phraseology. He compares the Trinity to an equilateral triangle, argues that the divine light of grace reaches the good in a direct perpendicular ray, the weak in a refracted ray, and the bad in a reflected ray, and compares the virtues to the rational numbers, and the passions to the irrational, etc.
— Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln (1899)
Sometimes, when on the Alpine rose The golden sunset leaves its ray, So like a gem the flow'ret glows, We thither bend our headlong way; And though we find no treasure there, We bless the rose that shines so fair.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, The Crystal-Hunters.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act II, scene 1
For whatever reasons, ray, call it . . . fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump.
— Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis Ghostbusters (1984), by "Dr. Peter Venkman".
No, ray. It's time to sit down.
— Who: Pete McVries
— Source: The Long Walk.
Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
john milton— 1665 Of his blindness. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.22-7.
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
Plum— 1935 Blandings Castle and Elsewhere,'The Custody of the Pumpkin'.
Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray I woke, the dungeon flamed with light, My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Charles Wesley— 1738 Hymn.'And Can it Be'.
Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun that I've just begun to feel.
edie brickell— "The Wheel"
Sky what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star!
Robert Browning— The two Poets of Croisic.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
lord byron— "The Bride of Abydos," Canto II, stanza 20
Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day: And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
john dryden— Religio Laici (1682).
No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay.
walter scott— Canto VI, stanza 21.
Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil The shadows that float o’er Eternity’s vale; Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love, That will hail their blest advent to regions above. For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway, And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— "Death" in an untitled dialogue (1809); published in Life of Shelley (1858) by Thomas Jefferson Hogg
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX, line 415.
But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm? Now sinks the note of fear! Ah? wretched mariners! no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!
— Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Shipwreck.
Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, The Roses.
But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 216.
With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.
erasmus darwin— Erasmus Darwin, Loves of the Plants, Canto I, line 225.
O! there lives within my heart A hope long nursed by me, (And should its cheering ray depart How dark my soul would be) That as in Adam all have died In Christ shall all men live And ever round his throne abide Eternal praise to give; That even the wicked shall at last Be fitted for the skies And when their dreadful doom is past To life and light arise.
— Anne Brontë, in "A Word to the Calvinists" (28 May 1843)
I know of very few great film-makers who might have been good novelistsSatyajit ray, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Jean Renoir, and that's about it.
— 2002 Step AcrossThis Line: Collected Non-Fiction1992-2002.
It's a Man ray kind of sky,Let me show you what I can do with it.
man ray— R. E. M., in "Feeling Gravitys Pull" on Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
She didn't want to know how much ray had paid for it because that had nothing to do with its real value.
nicole richie— p. 222 (The Truth About Diamonds (2005))
Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar ray Leonard and Sugar ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar ray Robinson was the greatest.
sugar ray robinson— Sugar Ray Leonard shows great respect for Robinson[[4]]
Nobody beat ray twice until he was 40 years old. His intelligence, his versatility, and his will to win were the reasons he won all those rematches. He created a new place for the imagination of a fighter.
sugar ray robinson— Jack Newfield [[11]]
What Charles and ray Eames are to furniture design, Raymond Loewy is to industrial design -- the modern master
— Raymond Loewy. Industrial Design, Overlook Press, 1988. General info
Roecker seems to have been as inspired by Todd Haynes's legendary underground film "Superstar" -- in which he told Karen Carpenter's life story with surprising tenderness using Barbie dolls and a bootlegged soundtrack -- as by the stop-motion animation of ray Harryhausen and the "Frosty the Snowman" cartoon.
— Ann Hornaday — quoted in Hornaday, Ann (January 27, 2006). "One Forgettable 'Freak' Show". The Washington Post (The Washington Post Company).
