Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Gregory David Roberts

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Pinsky

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

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.

Alan Moore

Life isn't divided into genres

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

Thomas Ligotti

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Emraan Hashmi

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Bill Burr

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.