Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Bamford

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

Gretchen Rubin

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.

Keke Palmer

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

Peter Adams

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Helge Hellberg

We're excited because it takes our message into the world. It's not just royalty or a celebrity coming, it's somebody who stands for what we are doing.

Robert Redford

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.

Kendra Wilkinson

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

R. Robinson

She'd be a reigning celebrity in that environment, ... But she doesn't want that. She is still the humble, gracious lady she's always been. I'll tell you, knowing her has certainly turned me around in terms of my own aspirations about where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. You grow where you're planted.

Janice Min

She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her personality,

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Aidan Quinn

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Edgar Degas

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Elizabeth Kostova

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Ron Stevens

She was horribly upset to give it up. But the flood's just taken over everything.

F. Sionil Jose

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

Zach Thomas

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

Louis Cataldie

I don't know when you will get that data, ... I'm looking at means to increase the rate. ... It's going horribly slowly.

Robert Bea

The reason it immediately shows up on my radar screen as being horribly low is because the soils are so variable.

Patrick Marber

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

Greg Sullivan

Stoplights, yeah, not only are they horribly timed, there seems to be a lot of them for smaller roads.

Lynn Miller

It's horribly insidious. The USDA is poised to push us off our farms.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Becky Sarro

She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.