Steve Martin Quotes

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Food

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Look
  • Talking

• In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • First
  • Season
  • Average

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • May
  • American

• I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Nice
  • Crazy

• During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.

  

  Alex Grey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Natural

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Talent
  • Persistence
  • Substitutes