Ray Stevens Quotes
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
Quotes to Explore
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
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I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
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There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
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I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.
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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
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Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.
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With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
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Nec nocte paratum,plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.
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'Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know - they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered/ We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of beign seen, or heard, even for a moment.'
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.
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For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
