Steve Martin Quotes

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

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• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Always
  • Never
  • Been

• Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Faith

• An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Ocean
  • Chaos

• During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Question
  • Air
  • Battle

• If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Stop
  • Star
  • Inspired

• God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Country
  • Children

• I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Person
  • Romantic
  • Notes

• The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

  

  William Hamilton Maxwell
  • Country
  • Extraordinary

• To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Compassion
  • Individual
  • Concern

• Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Victory
  • Accomplishment
  • Triumph

• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • My Life
  • Consequence
  • Chickens

• I had a great time working with Denis [Villeneuve] and the whole group. It was a very different kind of a part [in Story of Your Life] than I've played in a while. But I had great fun; and yes, it was really nice not to have to answer to anybody about that.

  

  Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Different
  • Really
  • Answers

• Most people are more deeply influenced by one clear, vivid, personal example than by an abundance of statistical data.

  

  Elliot Aronson
  • People
  • Example
  • Personal

• You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Shots
  • Shooting

• There was a good pace to the whole game, we were all really efficient. We took good shots, made good decisions. We all helped each other.

  

  Andrew Wiggins
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Shots

• I'm very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I'm just going to give the fans what they want.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Kind
  • Going
  • Content

• I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Shots
  • Chimneys