Steve Martin Quotes

As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

Steve Martin

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• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Women
  • Children
  • War

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Ready

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Better
  • Vanity
  • Slow

• To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Movie
  • Mean
  • Moment

• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Decision
  • Choices
  • Moral

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic

• My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Experience
  • Growth
  • Profound

• I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • War
  • Civil War

• Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • House
  • Government

• The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Power
  • King
  • Crush

• With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Love
  • Impossible
  • Patience

• I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Bad
  • Question
  • Care

• I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Proud

• There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Rest

• The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Souls
  • Torture
  • Wounded

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Purpose

• As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

  

  Steve Martin
  • School
  • Purpose
  • Logic