Steve Martin Quotes

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

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• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Career
  • Seem

• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Tea
  • Head

• You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • You
  • Yourself

• You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Training

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Courage
  • Sick
  • Nobody

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Republican

• No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Daily

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

• It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Rose

• I definitely have a lot of ambition.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Ambition

• I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Challenge

• Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Car
  • Identity

• Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • History
  • Together

• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Night
  • Light
  • Birth

• Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Tomorrow
  • Hopeful

• I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Sorry