Ray Stevens Quotes
I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.
-
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
-
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
-
Many of the women who benefited from thyroid therapy provided added evidence that it was the thyroid which was responsible. There were the women who, upon being relieved of their menstrual problems, stopped taking medication only to return in a few months with their original complaints. Thyroid therapy again overcame their difficulties.
-
...makes my TV work look professional.
-
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
-
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
-
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
-
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
-
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
-
Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.
-
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
-
I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport.
-
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
-
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
-
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
-
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
-
Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
