41 of the most Famous Stevie Nicks Quotes

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is a multi-award winning American singer-songwriter. She is often regarded as the Queen of Rock n' Roll. Below are the most powerful Stevie Nicks quotes you will enjoy reading.

Stevie Nicks Quotes

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. Stevie Nicks

Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship. Stevie Nicks

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star. Stevie Nicks

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. Stevie Nicks

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. Stevie Nicks

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. Stevie Nicks

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice. Stevie Nicks

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't. Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. Stevie Nicks

I don't really like to be filmed. Stevie Nicks

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that. Stevie Nicks

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers. Stevie Nicks

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. Stevie Nicks

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up. Stevie Nicks

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers. Stevie Nicks

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick. Stevie Nicks

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman. Stevie Nicks

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. Stevie Nicks

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. Stevie Nicks

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar. Stevie Nicks

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. Stevie Nicks

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? Stevie Nicks

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person. Stevie Nicks

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again. Stevie Nicks

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time. Stevie Nicks

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me. Stevie Nicks

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. Stevie Nicks

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. Stevie Nicks

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. Stevie Nicks

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. Stevie Nicks

By the time I was five, I was a little diva. Stevie Nicks

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. Stevie Nicks

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do. Stevie Nicks

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy. Stevie Nicks

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone. Stevie Nicks

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit. Stevie Nicks

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. Stevie Nicks

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person. Stevie Nicks

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. Stevie Nicks

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love. Stevie Nicks

26 John Wayne Quotes And Sayings That Will Inspire You

Marion Mitchell Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor, director, and producer.

Famous John Wayne Quotes And Sayings That Will Inspire You

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. John Wayne

Get off your horse and drink your milk. John Wayne

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' John Wayne

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. John Wayne

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props. John Wayne

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me. John Wayne

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. John Wayne

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. John Wayne

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. John Wayne

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star. John Wayne

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. John Wayne

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. John Wayne

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. John Wayne

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. John Wayne

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. John Wayne

I've loved reading all my life. John Wayne

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. John Wayne

Get off your butt and join the Marines! John Wayne

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on. John Wayne

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am. John Wayne

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. John Wayne

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. John Wayne

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries. John Wayne

25 Powerful Amelia Earhart Quotes To Keep In Mind All Time

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. Below are 25 powerful Amelia Earheart you will enjoy reading.

All-Time Best Amelia Earheart Quotes

I want to do it because I want to do it. Amelia Earhart

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. Amelia Earhart

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. Amelia Earhart

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. Amelia Earhart

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. Amelia Earhart

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality. Amelia Earhart

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. Amelia Earhart

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men. Amelia Earhart

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner. Amelia Earhart

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. Amelia Earhart

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex. Amelia Earhart

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Amelia Earhart

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control. Amelia Earhart

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Amelia Earhart

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

61 Sara Blakely Quotes You Will Never Hear Taught In Business Schools

Sara Blakely is the founder of Spanx, an American intimate apparel company with pants and leggings, founded in Atlanta, Georgia. below are 61 Sara Blakely quotes that reveal her secrets to success.

Sara Blakely Quotes

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Sara Blakely
 
Everything in our society is so purposeful. Sara Blakely

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say. Sara Blakely

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. Sara Blakely

Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better?' Sara Blakely

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. Sara Blakely

It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised. Sara Blakely

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. Sara Blakely

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better. Sara Blakely

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! Sara Blakely

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. Sara Blakely

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look. Sara Blakely

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist. Sara Blakely

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants. Sara Blakely

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. Sara Blakely

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants. Sara Blakely

I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born. Sara Blakely

I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it. Sara Blakely

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment. Sara Blakely

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. Sara Blakely

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. Sara Blakely

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it. Sara Blakely

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends. Sara Blakely

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. Sara Blakely

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. Sara Blakely

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. Sara Blakely

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents. Sara Blakely

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered. Sara Blakely

You've got to embrace what you don't know. Sara Blakely

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time. Sara Blakely

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. Sara Blakely

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course. Sara Blakely

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable. Sara Blakely

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream. Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. Sara Blakely

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. Sara Blakely

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. Sara Blakely

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently. Sara Blakely

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. Sara Blakely

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.' Sara Blakely

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. Sara Blakely

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school. Sara Blakely

Trust your gut. Sara Blakely

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up. Sara Blakely

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. Sara Blakely

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe. Sara Blakely

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it. Sara Blakely

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives. Sara Blakely

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire. Sara Blakely

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. Sara Blakely

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are. Sara Blakely

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. Sara Blakely

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment. Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. Sara Blakely

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top. Sara Blakely

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. Sara Blakely

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable. Sara Blakely

Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away. Sara Blakely

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. Sara Blakely

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. Sara Blakely