Demetri Martin Quotes

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

I'm like, 'John, people treat me differently because they just look at me as a girlfriend,' and unfortunately, that's our world. Now all of a sudden - just within hours of him putting a ring on it and asking me to be his wife - it is crazy the level of respect people have for me.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.

I know the polling data shows people have a negative view but if you listen to everything out there, you think, my God. We're in such deep trouble. We created more jobs than every other industrial country in the world combined.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

And for to see, and eek for to be seie.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed