I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
RACHEL STEVENS Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
RACHEL STEVENS My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
RACHEL STEVENS I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
RACHEL STEVENS Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
RACHEL STEVENS I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
RACHEL STEVENS I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense ...
RACHEL STEVENS I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
RACHEL STEVENS I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now...
RACHEL STEVENS Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
RACHEL STEVENS I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
RACHEL STEVENS Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
RACHEL STEVENS I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
RACHEL STEVENS I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games...
RACHEL STEVENS When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know...
RACHEL STEVENS I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
RACHEL STEVENS I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
RACHEL STEVENS I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for...
RACHEL STEVENS A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopul...
RACHEL STEVENS Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in...
RACHEL STEVENS I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
RACHEL STEVENS Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
RACHEL STEVENS I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.
RACHEL STEVENS I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt...
RACHEL STEVENS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current cont...
TED STEVENS What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Amer...
TED STEVENS I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
TED STEVENS I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
TED STEVENS There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there...
TED STEVENS People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
TED STEVENS I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both House...
TED STEVENS I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best ...
TED STEVENS In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natura...
CAT STEVENS I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on...
FISHER STEVENS Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS The problem with national gardening magazines and TV shows is that they're based on the East Coast, ...
ALAN STEVENS I think more people should plant more flowers in more places, to make the world a more colorful plac...
ALAN STEVENS It's something to see when I drive through town everyday. I think we all need to give something to t...
ALAN STEVENS The government has asked that he be detained because he is either a flight risk or a danger to the c...
ALAN STEVENS The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start...
FISHER STEVENS I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
FISHER STEVENS And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
FISHER STEVENS Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fa...
FISHER STEVENS I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
FISHER STEVENS But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
FISHER STEVENS Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
FISHER STEVENS It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.
FISHER STEVENS But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I neve...
FISHER STEVENS I'm really obsessed with the past.
FISHER STEVENS No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
FISHER STEVENS I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
FISHER STEVENS You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
FISHER STEVENS But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. I...
FISHER STEVENS But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's ...
FISHER STEVENS Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, se...
THADDEUS STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
RAY STEVENS Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hea...
CAT STEVENS It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa...
CAT STEVENS In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audien...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited...
CAT STEVENS I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that Go...
CAT STEVENS I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and rea...
CAT STEVENS Communal well-being is central to human life.
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS I don't know much about my biological background.
DAN STEVENS I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to th...
DAN STEVENS I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 w...
DAN STEVENS It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intel...
DAN STEVENS I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, yo...
DAN STEVENS The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a sh...
DAN STEVENS Everything's so accelerated now.
DAN STEVENS The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
DAN STEVENS I'm shocked at being recognized.
DAN STEVENS Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anythi...
DAN STEVENS I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not some...
DAN STEVENS At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I ...
DAN STEVENS I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I...
DAN STEVENS I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep ...
DAN STEVENS As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I...
DAN STEVENS I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I...
DAN STEVENS In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it&...
DAN STEVENS Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People wa...
DAN STEVENS My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of E...
DAN STEVENS We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby ...
DAN STEVENS I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awe...
DAN STEVENS All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others....
DAN STEVENS Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of ...
CAT STEVENS Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
ABEL STEVENS I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair ...
DAN STEVENS The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in...
DAN STEVENS I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really gett...
CONNIE STEVENS I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
CONNIE STEVENS Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
CONNIE STEVENS I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
CAT STEVENS I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...
CAT STEVENS One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reveri...
MARK STEVENS Back then, other than male players, girls really didn't have any role models in basketball. I rememb...
BARBARA STEVENS People moving into Orange County are typically concerned about two things. They want to know about t...
BARBARA STEVENS They read everything and know everything about the Bentley College legacy. It bothers them when they...
BARBARA STEVENS They were coming in here ready to give us one more big shot. They had the adrenaline going early and...
BARBARA STEVENS To be mentioned in the same breath as them is truly an honor.
BARBARA STEVENS They must have been pretty sure of themselves. To be honest, to me it was just a conference game, a ...
BARBARA STEVENS I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was bor...
CAT STEVENS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to s...
CAT STEVENS I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top...
SUFJAN STEVENS In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
CAT STEVENS As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheap...
CRAIG STEVENS But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to d...
ANNE STEVENS If the government and the infrastructure is there, the technology is there today to go as far as we ...
ANNE STEVENS We are committed to developing strong relationships with a select group of more capable, more financ...
ANNE STEVENS What we are doing here is really unique. We are reaching out to young women and linking them to the ...
ANNE STEVENS When you talk about what is Lincoln, it's about reaching the American customer who has reached his g...
ANNE STEVENS What cannot be done is to turn this valuable maritime space over to developers who envision hotels, ...
ANNE STEVENS I believe that vehicles are very passionate, emotional extensions of ourselves.
ANNE STEVENS I don't think we're late with hybrids. We brought out the first full American hybrid. We brought out...
ANNE STEVENS As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, For...
ANNE STEVENS This innovative research program could lead to breakthroughs to significantly reduce our nation's de...
ANNE STEVENS People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here...
CAT STEVENS When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space...
CAT STEVENS Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can...
SUFJAN STEVENS A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or wha...
SUFJAN STEVENS It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way w...
SUFJAN STEVENS Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit ca...
RAY STEVENS