Top 1200 World Famous Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

I am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it's true.

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

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it. We can - like Mother Teresa said at that famous national prayer breakfast bring the - let's welcome the children into our world. There are so many families around the country who can't have children. We could improve adoption so that families that can't have children can adopt more readily those children from crisis pregnancies.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

One of my favourite Japanese cartoons is 'Yasuragi no Yakata,' written by the famous Fujiko Fujio.

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

I realized no matter how famous you are, you're still human, and sometimes you need a chicken wing!

People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

My parents, Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri were very famous singers from Kolkata.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

I had no sense of 'Gotta work hard to be famous.' Never have done, and still don't.

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

I love Manchester. It's a super-cool city and its famous rain is part of the charm.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!

So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.

I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.