famous Quotes

From a geography textbook: Columbus became famous not for inventing Columbus\'s egg, but for discovering America.

It\'s strange that the more famous the director, the more \"ruined\" plays he has.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it\'s going to run out because it\'s very difficult work.

What I\'ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - \'Casablanca,\' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.

It seems like there\'s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

When I\'m offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, \"We\'re with Kenny Chesney. Can you get us in?\" That\'s so pretentious. I\'m pretty simple except for the fact that I have a really great boat and a little bit of money. When I\'m offstage I don\'t feel like the person everybody sees.

I\'m uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, \"She cut in line,\" or \"She took our table,\" or \"She doesn\'t do her own grocery shopping.\" It\'s not like it\'s hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn\'t matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.

There is a famous saying: \'It\'s hard to be a Jew.\' It\'s also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.

I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we\'d just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it\'s dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, \'If you\'re going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don\'t want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.\'

It\'s not like I want to be famous but it\'s a great motivation for me. If you have good attention, you feel more excited.

Some athletes can change, because it\'s not easy when you became famous too fast. The money, the pictures, the fans following you everywhere you can have everything you want. There are different temptations every time, but you have to be calm with your focus and your work.

Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

When we made \'Night of the Living Dead,\' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don\'t know why that happened. We didn\'t make the movie for kids.

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms. ' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?\'

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for \'Reggie-isms,\' kind of like \'Yogi-isms.\' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, \'You mean ambidextrous, coach?\'

If you become famous but haven\'t actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you\'re spectacularly shallow.

\"One more game!\" - Famous Last Words

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don\'t love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.