M.C. Steve Quotes

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

All language is an aspiration to music.

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Atari is a very sad story.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.