Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 8

192 quotes

Right now we're teaching them that the game is fun. If they learn it's fun, they always go back to it again in clinics and in schools.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.

First I get my name in the phone book and now I’m on your ass. You know, I'll bet more people see that than the phone book.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

Sure, you can start now. Fire the janitor.

I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

I believe in eight of the ten commandments; and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless there's a game on.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.