Steve Martin Quotes

I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

Steve Martin

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• A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Brain
  • Pool

• It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Feeling
  • Year
  • Cards

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.

  

  An Na
  • Believe
  • Firsts
  • Vampire

• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Country
  • Years

• Everybody blows their first money.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Money
  • Firsts
  • Blow

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Should

• Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Pride
  • Firsts
  • Prejudice

• Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

  

  E. R. Squibb
  • Health
  • Firsts
  • Healing

• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Firsts
  • Flesh
  • Would Be

• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Quality
  • inspirational
  • Firsts

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • History
  • Dog
  • Firsts

• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Mistake
  • Firsts
  • Feet

• Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Confidence

• “Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of.”

  

  A. E. Coppard
  • Water
  • Blood
  • Drink

• Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Space
  • Should
  • Switzerland

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  Patrick Henry
  • Eros

• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Firsts
  • Cards
  • Banjos