Steve Martin Quotes

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

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• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Book
  • Know
  • Nice

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Stage
  • Material

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • History
  • Democracy
  • Win

• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Stop
  • Reading

• 'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • History
  • Air

• The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Man
  • Cost
  • Before

• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Expression
  • Excellence

• The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Movement

• Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Men
  • Women
  • Things

• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.

  

  David First
  • Song
  • Certain
  • Piece

• All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Energy
  • Resistance
  • Requires

• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Love
  • Fear

• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Think
  • Car

• Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • War
  • Poor
  • Presidents

• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  

  Steve Martin
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