Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

Ray Stevenson

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• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Important
  • Think
  • Symbolism

• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Relationships

• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Dead
  • Buried
  • Arrived

• It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Fools
  • Tolerate
  • Ladies

• Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • High
  • You
  • Connection

• I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Eyes

• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • War
  • Vision
  • Journey

• When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • People
  • Good

• The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

  

  Diplo
  • Girl

• I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Long
  • Perfect
  • Cool

• I studied classical music in high school.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • American
  • Father
  • Grandparents

• There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Running

• I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• When 'Titanic' came out on VHS, I was working at a Sam's Club, which is already the worst. I don't know what you know about working for the Walton family, but it's horrific.

  

  Chris Cubas
  • Family
  • Titanic

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • Walking

• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Leader
  • Heroism

• Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Walking
  • Leader
  • Bars