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Rays Quotes - Page 12

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

"Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.298

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

"Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

"Chandra's X-ray vision of universe awes, puzzles", www.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.403

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

"Albert Brooks Says He Knows His ‘Drive’ Character’s Entire Backstory" by Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2011.