#ray

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#articles #book #dealing #doing #drop

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#day #did #god #grace #greek

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#arms #around #bear #constitutional #prayer

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well. ↗

— George Shearing

#chance #charlie #ella #get #had

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?" "Because she loves you," said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#forbidden-love #jace-wayland #love #valentine #love

The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along with the times of high excitement, there are times of sober work and practice. We must practice our communion with God, otherwise we will not find the right tone, the right word, the right language, when God surprises us with his presence. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#art

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#prayer #love

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#i #improved #long #long time #only

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad. ↗

— Kurtwood Smith

#everybody #insane #loves #more #peter

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#astray #because #determined #go #going