Steve Martin Quotes
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Fanny Howe
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Barry Sonnenfeld
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.
W. H. Auden
But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
Sarah Addison Allen
Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
J. A. Konrath
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
Dominic West
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin
