(437 quotes found)
“I want to be famous everywhere.”
Luciano Pavarotti
“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”
Christopher Hampton
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
Winston Churchill
“After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school”
Kin Hubbard
“I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.”
Brian Littrell
“The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.”
Michael Jordan
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“William Wyler has always been famous for taking a lot of takes. There is this story that he did this scene with a bunch of very competent people, a very important scene in the movie, and he'd already done it thirty times. One of them came to Willie and said, 'I want to know what we're doing wrong. What do you want us to do?' And Willie said, 'No, you're doing it fine. I'm just waiting for something to happen'.”
James Stewart
“I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that anymore.”
Dorothy Parker
“CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: _Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum_ --"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
Ambrose Bierce
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