Steve Martin Quotes

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

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• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• 'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Fighting
  • Young
  • Sides

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Racism

• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Losing

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Now
  • Evidence
  • Cards

• Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

  

  Lorde
  • Good
  • Girls
  • Swift

• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Wise

• To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • World
  • Good
  • Art

• I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Business
  • Remember

• We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Waves

• There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It's breathtaking.

  

  William C. McCool
  • Dark
  • Various
  • Exploration

• I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Time
  • Small
  • Period

• One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Nature
  • Progress

• When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Capable
  • Insane