Steve Martin Quotes

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

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• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Hungry

• I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Matter
  • Just
  • Lip Gloss

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• Actors can't retire. What would they do?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Would
  • Retire

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Balance
  • Literature

• I mostly want to be friends with my children.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Want

• I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Feeling
  • Always
  • Sports

• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• That was also my nickname in high school.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • School
  • High

• The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Experience
  • Drawing
  • Logic

• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Poets
  • Functions
  • Hallucinations

• I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

  

  Sarah Doudney
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

  

  Lisa Stansfield
  • Life
  • Live
  • Change

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Doubt
  • Shows
  • Essentials