A Quote by Steve Martin

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

Steve Martin

Quote Topics

Acceptable Categories Delicacy Divided Hilarious Obsessions She Three Unacceptable

Quote Author

Steve Martin
American - Comedian
Born: August 14, 1945

The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.

Peter Kropotkin

Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

Robert Gottlieb

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

Prosper of Aquitaine

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Hubert H. Humphrey

If my spirit is down, then so are the physical and mental levels. That's always been the case. When I'm motivated, my body feels great and I'm ready and excited to go. When I get burned out, I feel it in all three categories - mind, body and spirit. I'm aware and in touch with all three categories.

Rob Van Dam

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

Peter Buck

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

Carrie Preston

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Francis Picabia

She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl.

Paolo Giordano

Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

Craig Ferguson

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Eva Mendes

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

Eva Mendes

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.