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

• 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