“…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…”

—  Steve Martin

Source: An Object of Beauty

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…" by Steve Martin?
Steve Martin photo
Steve Martin81
American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and… 1945

Related quotes

Vasily Grossman photo

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

Source: Everything Flows

“Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.”

Gennifer Choldenko book Al Capone Does My Shirts

Source: Al Capone Does My Shirts

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”

Piers Anthony Golem in the Gears

Source: Golem in the Gears

David Yezzi photo

“The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.”

David Yezzi (1966) American poet

Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Wild Geese

“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Stephen Tobolowsky photo

“Marriage isn’t about the good days. Anyone can make a life with anyone else when you are having a good day. Marriage is about the bad days. When you have lost confidence. When you have been hurt. Or failed. Or gotten angry. Or made a terrible mistake. That is when the power of a marriage reveals itself.”

Stephen Tobolowsky (1951) actor and writer

Stephen Tobolowsky in a Facebook post on August 16, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/stephentobolowsky/photos/a.720745797941988.1073741825.113073725375868/922749314408301.

Jodi Picoult photo

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

St. Vincent (musician) photo

“I'm convinced that, as great as that record sounds, if you had anyone else sing it, you know, anyone else try to kind of weave and make it do that thing where it burns like wildfire and it comes alive, no one else could do it.”

St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter

On the song "The Hounds of Love"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: I'm convinced that, as great as that record sounds, if you had anyone else sing it, you know, anyone else try to kind of weave and make it do that thing where it burns like wildfire and it comes alive, no one else could do it. It's incredible the way she kind of brings this cold arctic atmosphere, It's just like fire, you know? It's like all aaarh coming out of her mouth. … and now I'm listening to the song in my head. "Do you know what I really need? Do you know what I really need? I need lalalala yea yo yea yo your love."

Related topics