Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Alanis Morissette

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Alan Watts

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Alan Watts

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Alan Watts

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

Chloe Sevigny

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Tara Slone

We've been together for two and a half years, we worked really hard from Day One -- I mean, really hard -- so for us, it doesn't feel like it happened quickly, ... The whole record industry is so fickle and strange that I feel like I'm going with the flow. I don't know what to expect, but I hope people like it.

Jesse Stone

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

Don Cassidy

We said it would be a stock-picker's year, and it was. Investors were particularly fickle and short-term driven.

John Henry Newman

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Pam Adams

This is a fickle, fickle game. We've just got to come back (today). We're playing hard, we just didn't get the wins.

Cole Porter

A slap and a tickle Is all that the fickle Male Ever has in his head

Howard Davidowitz

The rule of the game is go public for the money when you have the numbers to impress potential investors. Retail, and especially apparel, is so fickle that nothing stays the same forever.

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.