Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Adrienne Bailon

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Shane McAnally

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Source Unknown

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Linda Ronstadt

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

Kelly Ryan

Mozart wrote some of the most famous operas of all time; Mozart wrote some of the most famous Masses of all time, strong quartets, symphonies.

Charles Churchill

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.

Bill Cowher

Sports Town: A Look at the Famous Sports Pages of the Post-Gazette.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Danny Starkey

Sometimes when you're working so hard, it's hard to get over the hump.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

Kelly Golob

Sometimes, when I'm off the court, I find it hard to believe. It seems like I just got here.

Tom Green

Teams that shoot as quick and as well as they do make them hard to stop.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Joe Zwilling

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Rem Koolhaas

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Steven Rattner

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

Toni Morrison

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Daniel H. Pink

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Barry Gibb

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Nick Fazekas

When I don't see a double-team I have a big smile on my face. I know it will be a long night for the other team.

Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Brian Brandtner

We tried to stay with him all night. I thought every 3-pointer they took was contested.

Don Rickles

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Ozzie Guillen

First of all, I feel proud of my players. We went through a lot, a lot of tough times.

Alvaro Garcia

The time has come to be proud of what we are.

Mike Brey

What an afternoon. I'm proud of our group.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

John Piper

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.