Steve Martin Quotes

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Steve Martin

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• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Call
  • Temper
  • Abusive

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Intuition
  • Paid
  • Instincts

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Chemistry

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Money
  • Rich
  • Poor

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

  

  David Walton
  • Up

• Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.

  

  Walter C. Pfister, ASC
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Heart
  • Library
  • Intelligence

• I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Work
  • Art
  • Stop

• In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Fire
  • Painting

• It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Painting
  • Easier
  • Sells