Al Stewart Quotes

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn't work.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

Am I not a woman and a sister?

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.

I want to focus on my salad.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

It takes leadership to improve safety.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.