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

• This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Chinese

• 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

• We discovered at one point that the brick wall of the pillar would hold up a sock pretty well. This led to sorting socks by putting them on the wall, which in turn led to mosaics built entirely of socks. Mission drift is a hazard in all pursuits, including doing the laundry.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wall

• I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

  

  Johnny Vegas

• One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Technology
  • Novel
  • Relate

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

  

  Demetri Martin