Ray J famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

  • Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

  • Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  • You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

  • It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

  • How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

  • Our past is not our potential.

  • We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four

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