Steve Martin Quotes

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

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• I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Shakespeare
  • HBO
  • Deadwood

• Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Judge

• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Jump
  • Castle
  • Ketchup

• We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Offers
  • Housing
  • Alumni

• Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Home
  • Play
  • Child

• I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • May
  • Fooled

• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Sleep

• I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Old
  • Retirement
  • Noise

• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Way
  • Boredom

• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Ill
  • Impediment
  • Good Terms

• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Choice
  • Results
  • Weapons

• Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

  

  Harper Reed
  • White House
  • Presidential campaign

• I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Grows
  • Weary