Stevenson Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

• Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. — Travis Barker
• My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name… — Terry Brooks
• Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. — Joe E. Lewis
• The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.… — Will Oldham
• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised… — Andrew Motion
• When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy — Jack Ruby
• Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be — Quintin Jardine
• Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. — Richard M. Nixon
• I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy… — Willie Aames
• 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… — Jane Birkin
• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. — Mercedes McCambridge
• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal
• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell,… — Ian Rankin
• 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… — William Sanderson
• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I… — Arthur Gordon Webster
• The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James… — George R. R. Martin
• I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. — Elvis Presley
• I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour
• A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a… — John Steinbeck
• There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.… — J. William Fulbright

Who Wrote These Stevenson Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Stevenson Quotes as follows:

• 1 Stevenson Quote by Louis L'Amour
• 1 Stevenson Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Stevenson Quote by J. William Fulbright
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Aroha Janet
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Travis Barker
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Terry Brooks
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Joe E. Lewis
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Will Oldham
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Andrew Motion
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Jack Ruby
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Quintin Jardine
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Richard M. Nixon
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Willie Aames
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Jane Birkin
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Mercedes McCambridge
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Francine Pascal
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Ian Rankin
• 1 Stevenson Quote by William Sanderson
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Arthur Gordon Webster
• 1 Stevenson Quote by George R. R. Martin
• 1 Stevenson Quote by Elvis Presley