Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Lana Turner

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Patricia Richardson

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Jean Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Barry Bonds

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Luke Reilly

Ortiz played like a senior leader and we had some great contributions off the bench. It was two great teams battling. I'm happy with the way we played.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

O great and sane and simple race of brutes/ That own no lust because they have no law!

Mike McKee

Offensively and defensively he did a great job. It was one of our better team efforts.

John Cannon

Officers went to great lengths to find witnesses, but no one saw or heard anything.

O. Singh

Oh, he's a great player. I don't think he's scared to go out there and play, especially with a lead.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

Brandon Sanderson

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Archibald Alexander

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Brad Meltzer

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

Blaise Pascal

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Jim Calhoun

Sometimes I'd like to see them with more swagger. Perhaps we'll walk out of here with that kind of swagger.

Elliott Smith

I've been here all three nights. I kind of like it down here by the river.

Sara Schopper

That's kind of how we've been all year at the line. We've been in and out all year.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Cesar Chavez

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.

Carol Burnett

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Bellamy Young

From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Rutina Wesley

I usually love to go bowling when I'm in Vegas. There's something about Vegas and bowling, do you know what I mean? You know what I mean. Bowling is just the thing to do.

Dick Sargent

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Joe Thornton

I wanted to come back and they wanted to have me, so it was really a no-brainer to come back here. I love this city, I love playing here and I'm just excited.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.