All Quotes

Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.
‐‐ Manti Te'o

Ray Pearson, played for UCLA. He's a friend of mine.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.
‐‐ Arturo O'Farrill

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
‐‐ Steve Toltz

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
‐‐ Lou Reed

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
‐‐ James Ellroy

Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
‐‐ Payne Stewart

Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
‐‐ Samantha Power

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
‐‐ Anne Rice

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
‐‐ David Cronenberg

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
‐‐ Christa McAuliffe

Reach for the stars.
‐‐ Christa McAuliffe

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.
‐‐ Marco Chiudinelli

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.
‐‐ John Ridley

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
‐‐ David Nicholls

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
‐‐ Sharon Creech

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
‐‐ John Green

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
‐‐ Daniel Pinkwater

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
‐‐ George Herbert

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
‐‐ Emma McLaughlin

Read books. They are good for us.
‐‐ Natalie Goldberg

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
‐‐ Melina Mercouri

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.
‐‐ James Altucher

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
‐‐ James Altucher

Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.
‐‐ Ann Packer

Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
‐‐ Patricia Briggs

Read in order to live.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.
‐‐ Tom Freston