Ray Stevens Quotes

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• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Getting
  • Pleasant
  • Radiation

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• You wonder about her crime. She was condemned to death for stealing clothes from her employer, from the wife of her employer. She wished to make herself more beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

  

  James Howe
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Wonder

• I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

  

  David Mamet
  • Political
  • Wonder
  • Exercise

• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • American

• When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Up
  • Team
  • Wonder

• I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Wonder

• Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Book
  • Running
  • Wonder

• As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

  

  Jason Robards
  • Player
  • Wonder
  • Baseball

• I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.

  

  James Salter
  • Words
  • Question
  • Hand

• So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.

  

  Spencer Wells
  • Answers
  • Patterns
  • Biology

• Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief-uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Party

• If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Sun
  • Broken
  • Tree

• Whatever you can, count.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Can
  • Count

• 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
  • Wonder
  • Purple
  • Pleasant