Steve Martin Quotes

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

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• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Find
  • Tough
  • Atmosphere

• If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • How
  • Chickens

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Distance

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Rain

• Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Focus
  • Positive

• The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Drama

• 'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great

• My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Up
  • Character

• It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

  

  May Sarton
  • Fear

• I never control a film. The film controls me.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Control

• It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

  

  James Lipton
  • Up

• The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Memories

• History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • War
  • History

• In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Picture

• The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

  

  Peter Davison

• Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Long
  • Technology
  • Management

• It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Book