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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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.
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.
roger bacon— Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln (1899)
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)
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.
Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky— 1889 The Key to Theosophy.
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"
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— Act II.
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).
The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
john dryden— l. 19-24. (Mac Flecknoe (1682))
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.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the umbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
john gay— John Gay, Trivia, Book I, line 209.
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.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 14. Original found in a poem by Cardinal Barberini.
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.
Your greatest strength, ray, and possibly your only strength, is in pretending that you don't understand simple things.
ray comfort— AronRa (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants.
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]]
His use of rhythm, his timing, his footwork. ray Robinson was the greatest combination of speed and power that ever came together in one fighter.
sugar ray robinson— Mike Silver on Sugar Ray Robinson's abilities [YouTube video]
ray: I do know a Belgium joke! Okay, what's Belgium famous for? Chocolates and child abuse and they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids.
— Ray in In Bruges (2008)
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).
Dada is irony. (Katherine Dreier) Dada is 'nothing'. (Marcel Duchamp) Dada is a 'state of mind'. (Man ray) Dada is having a good time. (Stella)
— Answers - illustrating the climate of American Dada - by the participating artists on the question, 'What is Dada'; in the article 'Dada Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out: It Is on the Way Here', by Margery Rex, published in the 'New York Evening Journal, 1 April 1921; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 7
