Demetri Martin Quotes

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Demetri Martin

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Books
  • Will
  • Talk

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Grow
  • Only

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Think
  • Stop

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Done
  • Should
  • Information

• I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Falling In Love

• For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Work
  • Done
  • Forest

• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Distance
  • Hunger
  • Authors

• Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Good

• The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

  

  Bob Newhart

• I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Feeling