Steve Martin Quotes

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Music is a dialogue.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day where I'm like, 'Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.' It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.

I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

Social media isn't a one-way broadcast; it's a multiway opportunity for dialogue.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer.