Top 1200 Merchant Of Venice Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

To be famous and broke is hard.

I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for specific theses. As I remark, there's a style of philosophy - present in writers from Plato to Rawls - that invites readers to consider a certain class of phenomena in a new way. In the book, I associate this, in particular, with my good friend, the eminent philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who practices it extremely skilfully.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

It's hard to be famous and alive.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Well, it made you famous.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

My hair was famous before I was.

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue - and when it does, it's deadly dull. But literature can supply the frame within which we come to observe and reason, or it can change our frame in highly significant ways. That's one of the achievements I'd claim for Mann, and for Death in Venice.

I love being famous.

I'm not really wanting to be famous.

I never wanted to be famous.

I don't necessarily want to be famous.

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.

I actually don't feel famous.

I don't really want to be famous.

I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

I have no desire to be famous at all.

I don't have to be a star - I don't have to be famous.

I want to be famous.

I've never not been famous.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I didn't want to be famous or any of that.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

I don't have 'famous girls' that I like.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

It was never in my mind to be famous.

I like famous people!

I will either be famous or infamous.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

I'm gonna be famous forever.

I earned my famous name.

I have no desire to be famous, definitely not.

I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because there is nothing of substancein their lives. I am happy when I am writing or performing. Not when I sit there being "famous". I like recognition for my work, but not recognition for being "that bloke off the telly". It is genuinely humbling when a woman comes up to me, as someone did recently, to say she wanted to commit suicide after her husband died, and my show cheered her up and made her feel better. That's great.

I'm world-famous in West Bromwich.

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

I don't want to be famous.

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I want to be famous in my home.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.

I mean, I'm not really famous.

I want to be famous everywhere.

I don't want to be that famous.

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

I want to be successful, not famous.

Being famous is fun.

In Germany I am not so famous.