Ray Stevens Quotes

There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens

• Nature
• Thoughts
• Realizing
• Attraction
• Beholder

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• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• 'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

  

  Flume
  • First
  • Really
  • Sleepless

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Man
  • Society
  • Doubt

• Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Good
  • Great
  • Want

• It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Women
  • Strong

• Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Good
  • Democracy

• Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Past
  • Lost

• Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Heaven

• I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Boy

• My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Mom
  • Hair
  • Baby

• I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work

• The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

  

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

• Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Education

• Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Black
  • Green

• What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Contrary

• You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Gun
  • Arms

• There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Nature
  • Thoughts
  • Realizing