Mr Stevens Quotes

#1. All of us are, as Mr. Stevens said, "condemned to be that inescapable animal, ourselves.

Harold Bloom

#2. Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Cat Stevens

#4. It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shrivelled forms
Crouched in the moonlight.

Wallace Stevens

#5. You have to learn to expect the unexpected here.

Kristine K. Stevens

#6. The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.

Wallace Stevens

#7. The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ...

Wallace Stevens

#8. Don't cheat if you are unhappy, just walk away and give the respect of the person you once loved to move on

Patrick Stevens

#9. To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

Wallace Stevens

#10. When I live, I'll give it all I've got.

Sufjan Stevens

#11. Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don't always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace.

Anna Stevens

#12. For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

Chevy Stevens

#13. He heard her low accord,
Half prayer and half ditty,
And He felt a subtle quiver,
That was not heavenly love,
Or pity.
This is not writ
In any book.

Wallace Stevens

#14. There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

Sufjan Stevens

#15. I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

Connie Stevens

#16. But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

Fisher Stevens

#17. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#18. Life is not free from its forms.

Wallace Stevens

#19. As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.

Timothy Pickering

#20. Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

George Alex Stevens

#21. A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Cat Stevens

#22. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

Dan Stevens

#23. I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman

#24. Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.

Wallace Stevens

#25. My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Sufjan Stevens

#26. Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

Abel Stevens

#27. In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

Asa Hutchinson

#28. Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Cat Stevens

#29. The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.

Wallace Stevens

#30. If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.

Cat Stevens

#31. Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.

Thomas Stevens

#32. Your hurt is not an excuse to take.
Your loneliness is not an excuse to cheat.
Your desire is not a reason to rape.
You raped me, and now, I'm going to rape you.

Courtney C. Stevens

#33. People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

Wallace Stevens

#34. Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

#35. We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.

Craig Stevens

#36. We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

Tim Stevens