Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Thomas Carlyle

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Roland Barthes

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

Thomas Pynchon

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Albert Einstein

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

T. Harv Eker

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Chance The Rapper

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Bob Marley

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Ryne Sandberg

With those numbers that he has, those plateaus, that's Hall of Fame right there. As far as I'm concerned, he's in on the first ballot.

Edgar Degas

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Elizabeth Kostova

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.