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I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips. -- Len Wein
Illuvian Disruptor Death Rays don't kill Illuvians. Illuvians kill Illuvians." -- Bob N. Boguslavski
The Rays are a team to be reckoned with. These guys are getting better and better each year. -- Cliff Floyd
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. -- Washington Irving
For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that. -- Isaac Newton
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? -- Isaac Newton
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight. -- Arthur Eddington
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. -- Anais Nin
Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances? -- Isaac Newton
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the PhÃ¦nomena of Nature? -- Isaac Newton
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes? -- Isaac Newton
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. -- Nikola Tesla
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. -- Henny Youngman
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there. -- George Burns
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. -- Lord Byron
There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. -- Allen Frances
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. -- Francis Bacon
Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released. -- Chris Rock
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point. -- Jack Handey
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. -- Ray Charles
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. -- Charles Dickens
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities. -- Tom Waits
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life. -- Thomas A. Edison
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. -- Diane Ackerman
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. -- Victor Francis Hess
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. -- Edvard Munch
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. -- Abraham Verghese
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. -- Washington Irving
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. -- Johannes Stark
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S. -- Timothy Murphy
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. -- Johannes Stark
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. -- Claude Nicollier
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing. -- Orison Swett Marden
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. -- Michelle Malkin
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. -- Ada Lovelace
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. -- Karel Capek
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. -- Victor Francis Hess
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. -- Victor Francis Hess
The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. -- John Hersey
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays. -- John Hersey
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe. -- Max Heindel
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies. -- Max Heindel
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. -- Daniel H. Wilson
That's because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays. -- Rainbow Rowell
Every morning, the sunrise wakes me up with rays of hope. -- Debasish Mridha
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light -- Sonia Delaunay
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. -- Harold E. Varmus
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays. -- John Keble
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. -- Alexander Pope
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible. -- Lord Kelvin
I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful. -- Kool Keith
Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc. -- Peter Menzel
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. -- Andrew Young
I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine. -- Matt Skiba
I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. -- Thom Yorke
I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth. -- Bill Burr
Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue... -- Adam Sandler
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. -- Joey Bishop
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. -- Michael Dolan
Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun. -- Amit Ray
Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water. -- Ihara Saikaku
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. -- Swami Vivekananda
Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. -- Heinrich Heine
The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength. -- Gena Showalter
The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. -- Sara Quin
In the end Love conquered every heart and each living soul, imparting its rays of wisdom and making us whole. -- Jamil Hussain
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun. -- Hildegard of Bingen
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. -- Margaret Fuller
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. -- Nikola Tesla
Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy. -- Rob Letterman
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. -- William C. Bryant
When the mind is on the flight of thought, its rays is faster and broader than any object on the planet -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent. -- Dennis T. Avery
Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth! -- Gerald Massey
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. -- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going. -- Akhenaton
Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized. -- Stuart Holden
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields. -- Homer
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. -- Thomas Cogswell Upham
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US). -- John Gofman
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. -- Walter Benjamin
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need. -- Lee Hyeon-seo
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays... -- Pablo Picasso
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A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. -- Tom Robbins
This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light. -- Julie Anne Peters
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning. -- Johanna Spyri
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. -- Jeff Cooper
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.. -- William Cecil Dampier
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? -- Victor Francis Hess
Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom. -- Irene Joliot-Curie
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. -- Leonardo da Vinci
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine. -- Saul Bellow
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. -- Sophie Swetchine
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity. -- Albert Pike
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules. -- William Henry Bragg
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth. -- Akhenaton
When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. -- Pablo Picasso
Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go! -- William Wordsworth
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas A. Edison
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant. -- John Cameron

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