John Ray Quotes

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

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• Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Great
  • Songs

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• I believe in the power of weakness.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Weakness

• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Way
  • Doing

• If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Awesome
  • Superhero

• Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Order
  • Big
  • Out

• On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Great
  • Together

• I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration
  • Poverty

• In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Fear

• I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

  

  James Daly
  • Done

• There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

  

  Alexander Koch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

  

  Dr. John
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

  

  John Ray
  • Law