Steve Martin Quotes
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Quotes to Explore
-
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
-
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
-
I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
-
More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
-
These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
-
I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
-
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
-
Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
-
My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
-
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
-
I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
-
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
-
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
-
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
-
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
-
I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
-
True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
-
There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
-
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
-
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
-
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
-
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
-
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
