Steve Martin Quotes

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

Steve Martin

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Peace
  • Sunday

• Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Book
  • Political

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Model

• I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • American
  • Inspired

• The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Success

• When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Son
  • Destiny

• (Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Hard

• I want to do 'Chicago P.D.' for as long as it's on the air. I love the show; I love the Dick Wolf family. I think he's created something genius with the crossovers and having everyone on these shows inhabit the same universe as far as 'Chicago Med' and 'Chicago Fire' and 'Chicago P.D.'

  

  Jesse Lee Soffer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Universe

• The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

  

  Allison Janney
  • Today
  • House

• She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Understanding
  • Air
  • Enough