(903 quotes found)
“I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.”
Michael Davis
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“It is better to be faithful than famous”
Theodore Roosevelt
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
John Keats
“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses”
Sally Jessy Raphael
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? People are nice to ya, they give you the beneift o' the doubt... You drive a flash car down the freeway and the cops'll pull y'over and before they even look they like 'What the f**k are you doing?' and then they see it's you and they like 'Awww man, it's Chris Rock, it's okay, man we thought you was a nigga'.”
Chris Rock
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
Ray Charles
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.”
Voltaire
“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
George Harrison
