Demetri Martin Quotes

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

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• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Military

• Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Understand
  • Sciences
  • Inventions

• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Home
  • Guest
  • New Years

• I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Politics

• You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Girl
  • Know

• Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Books

• In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Difficult

• It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Film
  • Stay
  • Hardest

• I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Food
  • Respect

• Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

  

  Edward Sapir
  • Fear
  • Wish
  • Fashion

• Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Question

• The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy.

  

  Al Gore
  • Knowledge
  • Democracy
  • Enlightenment

• He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

  

  Bob Crosby

• In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

  

  August Sander
  • inspirational
  • Photography
  • Shadow

• I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

  

  Emeril Lagasse

• I'm very proud to say I only took one course in economics in college, and it was on Saturday morning - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock. Now I don't know what your college experience was like, but I'll tell ya, on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, the last thing I wanted to do was go to economics class.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • Experience
  • College
  • Proud

• When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.

  

  William Davis
  • Memories
  • Records
  • Patient

• I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

  

  James Lipton
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Gossip

• If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

  

  Demetri Martin