Ray Stevens Quotes
People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
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I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.
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The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.
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Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.
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We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.
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How Donald Trump reaches out to groups that may not have supported him, how he signals his interest in their issues or concerns, I think those are the kinds of things that can set a tone that will help move things forward once he has actually taken office.
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.