Demetri Martin Quotes

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

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• 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.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Good
  • Try
  • Hobby

• 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.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • 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.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Think
  • You

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• Laughter drives shouting away.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Laughter
  • Away
  • Shouting

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• If I'm uncomfortable on stage, everybody can see it. I'm not very good at hiding it. I like long, loose jacket dresses - anything that I can literally have room to move in - not that I'm a very big dancer, but because sometimes I'm sitting down at the keyboard, and then sometimes I'm standing. It just has to feel good.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Long
  • I Can

• Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Evil

• People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Loved
  • Explanation

• The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Politicians
  • Accents
  • Star Wars

• I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Good
  • Sports