Quotation Explorer - 'Famous'

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. - Will Cuppy
FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. Hassan Brubuddy - Ambrose Bierce
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. - Ambrose Bierce
Famous actress bragging about her husband: Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now" Dorothy Parker: Don't Worry--he'll come back in style" - Dorothy Parker
Most people don't often realize that they actually disclose their lies to the person who is truly wise by showing their likes for either the celebrity or no famous personality; but further bigger surprise is that many persons even don't worry of it or fear of being caught of their true identity. - Anuj Somany
Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man. - Jemmy Wiratama
Fame you make it yourself. To be famous you have to work for it yourself. - De philosopher DJ Kyos
i won't be happy until i'm famous like God - Madonna
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous. - Santosh Kalwar
I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again. - Nikki Rowe
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person; they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state. - Dada Bhagwan
When it comes to being famous, you’re usually the last to know, and the first to deny it. Unless you were already famous in your head. In which case, party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth! - Carroll Bryant
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley
I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful. - Salvador Dalí
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
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I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus. - Daniel Marques
I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them. - Rishabh Surya
Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand - Goals Rider
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. - George Matthew Adams
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. - Ambrose Bierce
I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve? - B.B. Taylor
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? - Chris Rock
People take often selfie with a celebrity to post it on their social media account to show merely themselves as famous personality, but usually end up giving him/her only somewhat publicity. - Anuj Somany
He who does propaganda for something will become famous about it, and if he remains incognito about it, he will become renowned. The value is for the renowned state and not for that of a famous state. - Dada Bhagwan
Babynamescube.com is a world famous baby naming and pareting website. Find beautiful and trendy names with meaning and origin. Also get parenting advice. - Linda
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. - R. Curtis Venture
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. - Ambrose Bierce
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. - Johannes Brahms
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. - Ambrose Bierce
A famous author is a promoter who never quit. - Kristin James
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. - Andy Warhol
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. - Meryl Streep
Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous. - J.K. Rowling
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure. - Sara Sheridan
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. - Cullen Hightower
I awoke one morning to find myself famous. - George Gordon Byron
It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous. - Debasish Mridha
My mom is the most famous thing about my video blog. Everyone likes moms. People enjoy watching people's family. - Schlomo Rabinowitz
Whenever I read Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote, 'Hell is other people,' it's like he's right there in the room with me. - John Alejandro King
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see it's not the answer.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it. - Marty Rubin
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. - Simeon Strunsky
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy
Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. - Vladimir Nabokov
It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you. - M.F. Moonzajer
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous.
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." - Andy Warhol
You can't choose what you're famous for in life. - Dave Kellett
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. - C. JoyBell C.
So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy! - Deyth Banger
I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star. - K.D. Sanders
It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones. - Christina Rickardsson
you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street,but no-one knows you next monday. - JJ FIELD
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. - Dorothy Parker
Always try to be someone of value than someone famous. - Debasish Mridha
When I was on "StarSearch", one of the producers told the other contestants, "She'll never be famous; she's too tough, she's too New York, and she's too heavy." And I remember thinking, "Gosh, he's gonna feel like a jerk when I'm famous. Through the negativity I learned to hear myself quite loudly. - Rosie O'Donnell
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' - Terry Pratchett
WORSHIP IS ACTION.""Worship is not lazy, boring and sad.Worship is zealous, famous and joyful. - Mac Canoza
Everything big, once started little. Most famous people started just where you are at now. Catapult yourself to success. Practice self-discipline. Work to develop excellent skills and abilities. Learn to be polite and diplomatic. Doing this, helps insure you grow big at what you want for success. - Mark F. LaMoure
I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why. - Daniel Marques
Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. - Jim Carrey
We don't really consider ourselves famous. we're just four dorks who ride around on a bus. - Big Time Rush
Weird is the thinking of the world as a person is not considered famous by the people until cartoonists start making his caricature. - Anuj Somany
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. - Dorothy Parker
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. - Michael Pritchard
All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
I want to be famous but unknown! - Edgar Degas
Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items. - Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
Most people can't understand why they want to read so much.Likeminded types understand that they wish they had more time to read. When studying famous intellects, a pattern emerges of phases of insatiable reading for several years followed by a personal transformation into great achievements. - Peter Rogers
I only want to be famous to my friends.book: stuff i think about - Sondra Faye
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame... - Amit Abraham
When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to. - Sheila Burke
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous. - Andy Warhol
It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words. - David Crosby
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil. - Michael Bassey Johnson
DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me... - Deyth Banger
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist] - Samuel Johnson
..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em. - Daniel Black
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