Steve Martin Quotes

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

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• No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Break

• How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Story
  • Write
  • Scenes

• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Film
  • Choice

• You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Purpose
  • Knows
  • Ifs

• No, but you can see it from here.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • See
  • Here
  • Can

• A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

  

  Roger Jon Ellory
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Hands

• My Pleasure is my business

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Business

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Dreams
  • Burn

• I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Figures
  • Mets
  • Public Figures

• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Essence
  • Historical
  • Buddha

• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Strong
  • Moral

• Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

  

  Olavo de Carvalho
  • War
  • Crime
  • Corruption

• Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friends
  • Looks
  • Friendship

• At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Friends
  • Mad
  • Monster

• Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Perfect
  • Scars
  • Knees

• Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!

  

  Christina Stead
  • Marriage
  • Mistake
  • Made

• Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Mother
  • Lovely
  • Motor

• I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Saws
  • Straight Path
  • Straighter

• I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Saws
  • Dragons
  • Tigers