Martin Short Quotes

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

Martin Short

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• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Art

• I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • World
  • Family
  • Parents

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tax
  • April
  • Accounting

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Family
  • Why

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Family
  • True
  • Help

• My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Family
  • Want
  • Question

• Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Father
  • Science
  • Uncle

• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • May
  • City
  • New

• Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Time
  • History
  • Knows

• It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

  

  Martin Short
  • Family