Demetri Martin Quotes

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

Eat my shorts!

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

I write in American slang.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Gag me with a spoon!

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.

When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.

Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that’s symbolic of another thing. But isn’t the same thing. Just like it." "You mean a metaphor?" "No! It’s like a story...like...a proverb! That’s it." "I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy." "I don’t think so.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan