Steve Martin Quotes

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

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• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Different
  • History
  • Hope

• There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Way
  • Universe

• I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Start

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Politics

• In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • School
  • Free
  • Growing

• 为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。

  

  Jack Ma

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• We do not accept or officially recognise Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate. But our approach is humanitarian. I ask you where is the Soviet Union now - has it been wiped out or not? It vanished without a war. Let the Palestinian people chose. It will happen.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • War

• Ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόματὸ Δῖον, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ἔπος τελεῖ.

  

  Aeschylus

• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reason
  • Facts
  • Mathematics

• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • May
  • Die

• Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Together
  • Culture

• Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Opportunity

• It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • World
  • Comedy

• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

  

  Plutarch
  • Good
  • Evil

• Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Fall

• To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • High
  • Death

• You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

  

  Ken Dodd
  • Home

• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Professional

• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Drinking

• When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Time
  • Money

• I see kids who are complete cynics. They're not dreaming. They're out there with high-powered weapons, smoking crack behind the 7-Eleven. They've seen it all. These kids are going to take us into 2000 and beyond. That's scary, man. I wouldn't say I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I'm more realistic, I guess. But not cynical. I look. I watch.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Kids
  • High
  • Scary

• It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Should
  • Sweet
  • Helping