Steve Martin Quotes

I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

Steve Martin

• Purpose
• Wine
• Drink
• Drunk

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Home
  • Tea
  • Drink

• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Proud

• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Long
  • High
  • Space

• I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Purpose
  • Opinion
  • Attitude

• I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Night
  • Reality

• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Music
  • Stars
  • Wine

• I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Past
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Purpose

• The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Purpose

• The stag at eve had drunk his fill,Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,And deep his midnight lair had madeIn lone Glenartney's hazel shade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Deep
  • Moon
  • Drunk

• Consider-We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Purpose

• This is the best and ultimate purpose of conducting: Not only to lead (the musicians) and keep them together, not only to make their performance easier and simpler, but also to guide them so that they can play as they have always longed to play.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Together
  • Purpose

• My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.

  

  Lisa Whelchel
  • Purpose

• Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Giving
  • Purpose
  • Grace

• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Men
  • Science
  • Hate

• By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.

  

  Mary Page Keller
  • Done
  • Game
  • Light

• THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dirty
  • Cheating

• I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Purpose
  • Wine
  • Drink