Steve Martin Quotes

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • House
  • Career

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

  

  Pat Boone
  • House
  • Years
  • Same

• I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Home
  • House

• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Long
  • House
  • White

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • House
  • Action
  • Support

• I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Important
  • House
  • Political

• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Love
  • House

• Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Art
  • Human
  • Making

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

  

  Mirriam Johnson
  • Words
  • Missing

• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Rock
  • Wonder
  • Blow

• You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

  

  Steve Martin
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