Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steve Martin

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Steve Martin

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

Steve Martin

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Steve Martin

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Steve Martin

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Stephen Hawking

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Stephen Hawking

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Stephen King

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen Hawking

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Stella McCartney

Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.

Stanley Baldwin

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Lem

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Spike Milligan

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Spike Milligan

It was a perfect marrige. She didn`t want to and he couldn`t

Spike Milligan

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Spike Milligan

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Spike Milligan

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Spike Milligan

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Spike Milligan

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Sigmund Freud

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Shirley Temple

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley MacLaine

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shelley Winters

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Shawn Johnson

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

Shawn Johnson

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.