Steve Martin Quotes

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

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• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Love
  • Single
  • Beginning

• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Free

• Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Wall
  • Immigration

• I can be bought, but not bored.

  

  Alfred Lunt
  • Bored

• The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • People
  • World

• I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Book

• I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
  • Decision
  • Magic

• A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Family
  • Interesting

• People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People

• Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Sound
  • Silly
  • Obsessed

• I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Missing

• If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Kind
  • Cat
  • Beast

• Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Lines
  • Hey

• I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Cat
  • Fur
  • Baths