Top 100 Ray Stevens Quotes
#1. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
Boudleaux Bryant
#2. 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
#3. '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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
Abel Stevens
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.
Cat Stevens
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.
Wallace Stevens
#15. Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
Sufjan Stevens
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things
Wallace Stevens
#19. The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.
Wallace Stevens
#20. Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.
Cat Stevens
#22. The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
Wallace Stevens
#23. The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ...
Wallace Stevens
#24. Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#25. 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
#26. To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
Wallace Stevens
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
Wallace Stevens
#37. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
Connie Stevens
#38. I really love Beyonce. I like to look to her because we look similar; we have similar features about ourselves. So whenever I see that she's using a new product, or a new hair color, I like to look at her. because I know that if it looks good on her, it's something that I could try.
Amber Stevens
#39. This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.
Fisher Stevens
#41. From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist.
Wallace Stevens
#42. But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole.
Courtney C. Stevens
#43. Miss Lappet was not the murderer.
Neither were Miss Hopkins or The One.
It was Miss Griffin.
Robin Stevens
#44. We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.
Sufjan Stevens
#45. Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
Elia Kazan
#46. It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
Cat Stevens
#47. It's impossible, I think, to save everyone, but if we help even one person in our lifetime, then we succeeded.
Chevy Stevens
#48. I don't know much about my biological background.
Dan Stevens
#49. The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.
Taylor Stevens
#50. Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.
Ray Stevens
#51. One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
Wallace Stevens
#52. The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
Wallace Stevens
#53. Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.
Lisa Unger
#54. It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.
Dan Stevens
#55. A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
#57. I'm pretty involved in everything I do, which isn't always efficient and doesn't necessarily make for the more successful product. But I do feel that, in that sense, everything I do has a comprehensiveness to it.
Sufjan Stevens
#58. The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags ...
Wallace Stevens
#59. I used Coldplay's mixer, Michael H. Brauer, on 'Roadsinger'; he's brilliant. He won a Grammy for their record.
Cat Stevens
#60. promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened
Robin Stevens
#62. Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
Stuart Stevens
#63. There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
Rachel Stevens
#64. People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Shia Labeouf
#65. Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.
Cat Stevens
#66. In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.
Dan Stevens
#67. When word gets out you're in here, the press'll be all over this place like stretch marks on a ninth-street lap dancer.
Al Stevens
#68. Shelley was an idol of mine
and many
an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
Connie Stevens
#69. Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.
Cat Stevens
#70. Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.
Wallace Stevens
#71. I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
Rachel Stevens
#72. I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
Alan Ladd
#73. We've been given a second chance. Some people never even get a first. Do you know how lucky we are?
Felice Stevens
#74. I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
Ray Stevens
#75. The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment
Wallace Stevens
#76. A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
John Paul Stevens
#77. Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
Sufjan Stevens
#79. I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens
#80. I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
Lee DeWyze
#82. It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
Wallace Stevens
#83. I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.
Kristine K. Stevens
#84. You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not
Brad Stevens
#85. The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ...
Wallace Stevens
#86. I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
George Stevens
#87. I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.
Cat Stevens
#89. Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous
Bette A. Stevens
#90. What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Wallace Stevens
#91. Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens
#92. The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions
Brad Stevens
#94. The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
Wallace Stevens
#95. Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
Wallace Stevens
#96. Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
Rachel Stevens
#97. Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
Ray Stevens
#98. Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Dave Mustaine
#99. I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.
Sufjan Stevens
#100. You may still be here tomorrow ... but your dreams may not.
Yusuf Islam
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