Stevens's Quotes

#1. '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. - Author: Dan Stevens

#2. 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. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#3. 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. - Author: Craig Stevens

#4. 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 - Author: Wallace Stevens

#5. 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. - Author: Chevy Stevens

#6. 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. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#7. 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? - Author: Fisher Stevens

#8. 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. - Author: Amber Stevens

#9. This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. - Author: Fisher Stevens

#10. But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#11. 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. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#12. 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. - Author: Elia Kazan

#13. It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. - Author: Cat Stevens

#14. It's impossible, I think, to save everyone, but if we help even one person in our lifetime, then we succeeded. - Author: Chevy Stevens

#15. Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills. - Author: Ray Stevens

#16. 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. - Author: Dan Stevens

#17. Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#18. I used Coldplay's mixer, Michael H. Brauer, on 'Roadsinger'; he's brilliant. He won a Grammy for their record. - Author: Cat Stevens

#19. There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! - Author: Rachel Stevens

#20. 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. - Author: Dan Stevens

#21. Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile. - Author: Cat Stevens

#22. The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment - Author: Wallace Stevens

#23. 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. - Author: Dan Stevens

#24. I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing. - Author: Lee DeWyze

#25. Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous - Author: Bette A. Stevens

#26. What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life? - Author: Wallace Stevens

#27. 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. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#28. Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#29. Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me - Author: Cat Stevens

#30. The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. - Author: Fisher Stevens

#31. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. - Author: Chevy Stevens

#32. We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media. - Author: Ann Coulter

#33. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#34. It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune. - Author: Dan Stevens

#35. It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love. - Author: Connie Stevens

#36. So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out. - Author: Cat Stevens

#37. Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want. - Author: Connie Stevens

#38. It's better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less. - Author: Patrick Stevens

#39. I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens - Author: R.S. Thomas

#40. Beauty is momentary in the mind
The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#41. That's how you make me feel; like I'm free-falling, but still flying in the wind. - Author: Felice Stevens

#42. Blood doesn't make family, and time and distance doesn't break it. Like the moon, family will always be there, even when it's too dark to see it. Keep strong and it will light your way home, wherever you are. - Author: June Stevens Westerfield

#43. Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have to wear it very often. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#44. I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world. - Author: Dan Stevens

#45. I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#46. It's as if he wants me to say he could have stopped his dad, so he's handing me a whip to beat him. But I won't, because I'm glad he hid. Glad he's beside me instead of six feet under. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#47. If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music. - Author: Colin Meloy

#48. I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young. - Author: Dan Stevens

#49. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate? - Author: E.J. Stevens

#50. It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go. - Author: Dan Stevens

#51. One must read poetry with one's nerves. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#52. My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#53. Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe. - Author: Cat Stevens

#54. My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing. - Author: Zoe Kravitz

#55. I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come. - Author: Cat Stevens

#56. The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#57. I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#58. Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#59. Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution. - Author: Cat Stevens

#60. I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it. - Author: Ray Stevens

#61. I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#62. I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it. - Author: Dan Stevens

#63. Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right? - Author: Rachel Stevens

#64. Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. - Author: John Paul Stevens

#65. Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that. - Author: Chevy Stevens

#66. One's ignorance is one's chief asset. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#67. A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#68. I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#69. There's no such thing as truth, that's what I learned," she said. "Only opinions people want you to believe as truth. - Author: Taylor Stevens

#70. The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#71. The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#72. That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#73. The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message. - Author: Cat Stevens

#74. I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#75. It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#76. Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying. - Author: Cat Stevens

#77. The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart. - Author: Craig Stevens

#78. I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. - Author: Evan Parker

#79. There's an art to crying without a sound, and I'm a master. But - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#80. I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast. - Author: Fisher Stevens

#81. The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#82. My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals - Author: Brad Stevens

#83. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law. - Author: John Paul Stevens

#84. Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. - Author: Cat Stevens

#85. Don't you ever touch her again," Bodee says. There must be muscles in his arms where before I thought there was only T-shirt. But it's not those muscles that pin Hayden against the ground: it's the white-hot fury that's as visible as Hayden's grimace. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens

#86. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers. - Author: S.M. Stevens

#87. It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man. - Author: George Stevens

#88. Music is part of God's universe. - Author: Cat Stevens

#89. Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it. - Author: Cat Stevens

#90. A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right? - Author: John Darnielle

#91. It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself. - Author: J. Christopher Stevens

#92. I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life. - Author: Dan Stevens

#93. There's no such thing as life; or if there is,
It is faster than the weather, faster than
Any character. It is more than any scene:
Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#94. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. - Author: Anna Stevens

#95. Poetry is the scholar's art. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#96. Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited. - Author: Fisher Stevens

#97. It's weird," I said. "In one way I feel almost crushed by all the freedom, but the longer I travel, the more I feel like I'm exhaling after holding my breath for years. It's like I'm breathing normally again. - Author: Kristine K. Stevens

#98. Remember, Matt, it's an exercise. That's called autobiography, the second enemy of listening. - Author: Hartley Stevens

#99. But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. - Author: Dan Stevens

#100. He doesn't talk. Except to me. Doesn't smile. Except for me. Doesn't go to dances. Except for me. This is the refrain of our song. He's different with me, and yet I know this is the real Bodee. He's not pretending anymore. - Author: Courtney C. Stevens