Demetri Martin Quotes
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
-
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
-
In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
-
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
-
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
-
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
-
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
-
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
-
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
-
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
-
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
-
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
-
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
-
Laughter drives shouting away.
-
I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
-
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
-
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
-
I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.
-
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being his daughter, and expect not to feel those people's wrath.
-
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
-
In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.
-
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
