Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Doug Harvey

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

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.

Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if I know anything about famous musicians, most of them will be sitting around muttering and grumbling and bitching about all the others.

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.

Anne Hathaway

I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.

Blake Lively

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

Seth Rogen

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

Russell Crowe

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

Robert Kiyosaki

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Maisie Williams

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

Andrew Clements

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

There's not a whole lot of famous people around here.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Linda Ronstadt

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

The precious metals markets have all the ingredients necessary to repeat the performance they were once famous for.

Robert Anthony

The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny.

Rumi

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

Pablo Neruda

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

Pablo Neruda

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Karl Schroeder

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

Kate McKinnon

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

Alexandre Dumas

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Basically. The rich and famous only need apply.

James McCartney

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Maisie Williams

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

Max Clifford

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