Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Publius Tacitus

Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up

Jay DeMarcus

Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame. It's been an incredible ride, and our fans have been a big part of it.

Jane Harman

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Jean Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

David Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Barry Bonds

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.

Noomi Rapace

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noel Gallagher

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

Madonna Ciccone

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.