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"You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope."
"Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created."
"Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?"
"Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday."
"There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war."
"Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home."
"Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day."
"There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer."
"Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts."
"Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists"
"I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression."
"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
"But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things."
"In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn."
"...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man."
"[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men."
"I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox."
"Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation."
"The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it."
"The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle."
