Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 10

I didn’t worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

You can’t make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

Just to be on the front row here is a bit of a prize in itself.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

When I first found out that I was going to win this award, I tried really hard - to care. And then I realized; we are all here tonight, because of a common love: me.

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

While my fervent hope is we can get the entire amount. I think we need to have some idea what we would lose.

It is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

All of those things make it look like a really hard transaction to pull off. But it can be done.