Steve Martin Quotes

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Steve Martin

• Art
• Wealth
• Appreciation
• Unnatural

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• People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Kids
  • Thought

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• I am permanently relaxed.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Relaxed

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.

  

  Garth Nix

• The vengeful God of wrath and punishment is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me That makes me fail.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Fairytale

• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  

  Jam Master Jay

• The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Why
  • Angry

• Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Creativity

• My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Work
  • Control

• Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.

  

  Kellyanne Conway

• I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

  

  Bobby Riggs

• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,A gauntlet with a gift in't.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God

• I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

  

  Donald Faison
  • Movie
  • City
  • Car

• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Love Is

• The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Art
  • Wealth
  • Appreciation