Demetri Martin > Quotes

“I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.”
― Demetri Martin

“Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy!”
― Demetri Martin

“I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.”
― Demetri Martin

“Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.”
― Demetri Martin

“I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.”
― Demetri Martin

“About a month ago I got a cactus. A week later, it died. I was really depressed because I was like, 'Damn! I am less nurturing than a desert.”
― Demetri Martin

“100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.”
― Demetri Martin

“I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.”
― Demetri Martin

“A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.”
― Demetri Martin

“I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' And I said, 'I am.”
― Demetri Martin

“It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters.”
― Demetri Martin

“REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.”
― Demetri Martin

“Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“Words have power,
you dumb piece of shit.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!”
― Demetri Martin

“I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less the Walrus in the sense of legendary music and more the Walrus in the sense of his tendency to to lie around in places for too long.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.”
― Demetri Martin

“Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“There's an old Russian saying that goes some way or another. I don't know it. I don't speak Russian. But sometimes I think about it and wonder if it's relevant to what I'm going through at the time. Probably not. I mean what do Russian know about hunger, anyway?”
― Demetri Martin

“The lord works in mysterious ways.
Indeed.
And a shorter way to say that is:
God is a sneak”
― Demetri Martin

“I'm writing my book in fifth person, so every sentence starts out with: " I heard from this guy who told somebody ...”
― Demetri Martin

“The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book

“When someone describes themselves as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.”
― Demetri Martin