M.C. Steve Quotes

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

I like to bow hunt, I do a lot of that. I don't get dressed up all too often, I'm pretty casual.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

I would say Im an optimist by nature.

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the subconscious focus of their entire lives, it often is repeated.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

I haven't been part of the criminal world.

I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.

I'm a big believer in the Christian faith. I don't push it on anyone, though.

Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.

When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.