Steve Martin Quotes

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

Steve Martin

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Past
  • Son
  • Thought

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Time
  • School
  • Band

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Peace

• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • New
  • New York
  • Theater

• Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn't touch the surface on the canvas, it's just above.. ..so I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Canvas

• But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Sky

• There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • World
  • High

• For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Moon

• While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • God
  • Know
  • Creation

• I don't worry about alienating fans. I don't think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn't make money off of record sales it's a great way for us to pay the bills!

  

  Alexis Krauss
  • People
  • Artist
  • Record

• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

  

  John Adams
  • Heart
  • Desire

• There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

  

  Adah Isaacs Menken
  • Heart
  • Flowers
  • Graves

• For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Work

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Heart
  • Stills
  • Quiet