Steve Martin Quotes

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Up
  • Important
  • Perfect

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Risk
  • Laugh
  • Looking

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Words
  • Community
  • Marriage

• If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Way
  • Working
  • Working Hard

• It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  

  Francis Bacon

• This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

  

  Frederick Leboyer

• People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Music
  • Player

• You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Simple

• I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

  

  David Duval
  • Celebrity

• This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it's like to actually control a character from a top-down, 'God's eye' view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player's head.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• Fitness of a top-class squash player is very important, and talent only can't do the job. They have to get training regularly for at least eight hours a day so that they could put some good show in a two-hour match.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• We are a country based on the rule of law.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Country
  • Law

• The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it's always good to try the international market because it doesn't have the same kind of baggage.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Independent

• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Things
  • Grub Street
  • Parnassus

• If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • People
  • Society

• Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Ferns