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

• A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • People
  • Scene
  • Hunting

• 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