Steve Martin Quotes
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been a partier.
-
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
-
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
-
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
-
Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
-
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
-
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
-
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
-
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
-
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
-
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
-
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
-
I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
-
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
-
Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
-
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
-
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
-
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
-
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
-
I know prisons from the inside.
-
Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.
-
The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
-
I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.
-
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.
