Home / Quotes / Quote by Steve Martin

Quote by Steve Martin

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”

Quote by Steve Martin

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Work

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

This book offers an intimate look into the life of a comedian, detailing his experiences, challenges, and triumphs in the world of comedy. more

Author

Steve Martin is a renowned American comedian, screenwriter, director, and musician, born on August 14, 1945. He has achieved great success in film, television, and theater, known for his unique sense of humor and acting skills. more

You May Also Like

“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”

Young Realizing Strange Young Women Old Woman

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

“Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.”

Giving Trying Looks Heart Moments Might Sound Voice Wonderful Needed Silent Fishes Tongue Useless Right Words

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?”

Men World Years Long Lasts America Fighting Millions Five Highest Standards Hundred Prosperity Certainty Frogs Standards Of Living Yossarian

Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.”

Ifs Remember Sides Ocean Bird Eternity Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”

Knows Way Humans Reality Earth Voice Worry Doubt Disappear God Knows Comes And Goes Kitten Human Voice

Author:J. D. Salinger

“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”

Dark Fire Love Each Other Fairytale

Author:Mathias Malzieu

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

Ifs Thinking Want May Book Different Feelings Opinion Cases Subjects Sorry Compare I Am Sorry Am Sorry Different Opinions

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.”

Giving Stills I Can Desire Giving Up Illusion Including Saved Without Hope

Author:Luke Rhinehart

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

Taste Caught Tongue

Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.”

Mind Long Emotion Fit Sight Profound Wave Deeper Rhythm

Book:To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft

Source: To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft