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I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. — Juliet Stevenson

We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there. — Andrew Stevenson

Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his inside, crutch and all, before that pipe's empty. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. — Robert Louis Stevenson

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it. — Cynthia Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common — D.E. Stevenson

That's because it was Gage Stevenson, the epitome of my childhood and love life. That boy is irreplaceable. — Melissa M. Futrell

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity. — Ray Stevenson

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E. Stevenson

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know. — D.E. Stevenson

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver — Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too. — William Sanderson

It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected. — Robert Louis Stevenson

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. — Adlai Stevenson

AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Because you're the most beautiful and mesmerising girl that I've ever met. I doubt there's a man on this planet who could say no to you. — Beckie Stevenson

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. — Parker Stevenson

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. — Juliet Stevenson

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. — Robert Louis Stevenson

...I'll stake my wig there's fever here. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change. — Juliet Stevenson

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. — Adlai Stevenson

Dying on some court schedule or some prison schedule ain't right. People are supposed to die on God's schedule. — Bryan Stevenson

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I told you," says Riley, looking pleased. "F.A.F"

"F.A.F?" I repeat, trying not to stare at her. "What's that?"

"Fine. As. Fuck. — Beckie Stevenson

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! — Robert Louis Stevenson

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. — Bryan Stevenson

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible. — Parker Stevenson

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. — Juliet Stevenson

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot. — Ray Stevenson

I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Robert Louis Stevenson ... was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be — Quintin Jardine

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! — Robert Louis Stevenson

In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. — Robert Louis Stevenson

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long. — Florence Stevenson

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five. — Anne Stevenson

I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The — Bryan Stevenson

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe. — Robert Louis Stevenson

-I am not sure whether he's sane.
-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I might be dead, but that hasn't stopped me so far and it's not about to start now. — Sharon Stevenson

In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide. — Ian Stevenson

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson

One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You may lay to that. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson

but you're as smart as paint. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them — Adlai E. Stevenson II

There is but one art, to omit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong. — Parker Stevenson

ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. — Robert Louis Stevenson

the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of — Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots? — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy — Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson

Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth. — Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The human race has improved everything, but the human race. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Davis Stevenson

Plastic surgeons are not famous for their whimsicality. If they were, we'd all have faces like Valentino's. And cocks like Lyle's. — Richard Stevenson

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson ... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. — Jane Birkin

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight. — Kelly Stevenson

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own. — Bryan Stevenson

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked. — Ray Stevenson

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ... — Robert Louis Stevenson

The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? — Robert Louis Stevenson

If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, — Robert Louis Stevenson

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. — Adlai Stevenson

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson

The essence of love is kindness. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. — Robert Louis Stevenson

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own. — Ray Stevenson

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. — Robert Louis Stevenson