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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 cheesetoasted 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
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 - setThe 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
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
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
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
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
