Top 1200 Famous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

I be wearing my own merch outside, trying to get more famous.

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

You don't have to be famous to live out your own red carpet moment.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world.

By the mid-'80s, I was an actor. I was never super-famous, but I was definitely on the map.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

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

I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.

If I focus on one person, the idea is that, oh, now you've attained this goal and beaten one person. One person. Well, what about the rest of them? Now how are you going to feel about fighting them? What's the motiviation there?

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

Me and my little brother never grew up wanting to be famous.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.