Quotes of: Famous-people Keyword

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Mary Lou Retton

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn vos Savant

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

Nat King Cole

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Paula Danziger

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

Sia Furler

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Val Kilmer

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Voltaire

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

Vanessa Paradis

Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lester Bangs: Iggy Pop! [smiling effusively] Lester Bangs: Amen!

Almost Famous

[last lines] Penny Lane: Morocco. A seat by the window, please.

Almost Famous

Estrella Starr: Simon Kirke from Bad Company is by the pool!

Almost Famous

Commodus: The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to...

Gladiator

Maxim de Winter: "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous sho...

Rebecca

A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to killing people for the fun of it. What the fun is, I did not quite understand at the time, but in the intervening years the ample exploration of revolu...

Autobiographical Reflections (CW34): Revised Edition, with a Voegelin Glossary and Cumulative Index

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observa...

The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

Tristan MacManus

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

Women

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Julian Clary