Steve Martin Quotes

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Steve Martin

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Best

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • You
  • End
  • Step

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• My fans have always loved my metaphors.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Always
  • Fans
  • Loved

• As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fool

• Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Aging

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Character
  • Sex

• When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.

  

  Wale
  • Real
  • Reading

• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• Everything changes and nothing stands still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Everything
  • Changes
  • Stands

• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Humanity

• Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Knowledge