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

• All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Pride
  • Sin
  • Lust

• 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

• Language can do what it can’t say.

  

  William Stafford
  • Language

• 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

• Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Peace
  • Destruction
  • Potential

• The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Used
  • Percent

• My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

  

  Noureddine Morceli
  • Time
  • Career
  • motivation

• The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Father

• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Humanity
  • Risk
  • Accidents

• 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