Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Tom Guiry

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charlotte Bronte

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

Charles Dickens

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Carina Perelli

The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Booth Tarkington

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Dianne Feinstein

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Don Johnson

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

Edward Teller

No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

Otto Dix

I will either be famous or infamous.

Stockwell Day

We also want to be able to stop people who are a menace or a threat from getting in or getting out, so that's the overall goal.

Maria Semple

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

Chris Van Allsburg

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Cassandra Clare

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Jeffrey Archer

Chatterers are a menace.

Kelly Bastone

Basements are bad. They are notorious for water leaks.

Caroline Sunshine

I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.

Oscar Wilde

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

Gregory David Roberts

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Joseph Addison

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Mahathir Mohamad

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

Sally Field

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

Robert Pinsky

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Maurice Carroll

I don't think it's going to be a terribly polite primary. And, why should it be?

will.i.am

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

Hattie Morahan

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

Bono

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Mark Vonnegut

My only hope was to be polite.

Hippocrates

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Fanny Burney

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Fan Bingbing

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

Emily Post

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

Sean Wilson

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.