Steve Martin Quotes

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

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• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Truth
  • Soul

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life

• In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Music

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Up

• Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Work
  • Different
  • Movie

• I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Important

• There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

  

  David Sze
  • Great
  • Discipline
  • Scary

• The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Growth

• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
  • Family
  • Hope

• 'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'

  

  Jane Yolen
  • People
  • Judge

• Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Father
  • Deal

• I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins

  

  Olubankole Wellington

• Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Work
  • Want
  • Artist

• The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

  

  Dave Chappelle

• I'm an ice cream lover, but anytime it's show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn't good for vocalists.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Lover
  • Cancel
  • Vocalists

• When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of valleys and painful trials Jesus has become an ever-present friend who is with me all the time. He has gone from being an historical God to being a living God to me today. I've fallen short many times during these trials and testings, but he has always been faithful. Whenever I've asked him to help me he always has....Jesus is everything and we are nothing.

  

  Brother Yun
  • God
  • Healer
  • Valleys

• The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • Kids

• Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

  

  Steve Martin