Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm treated very much like a normal person in Germany. They don't look at me as notorious, or famous in any way.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Robert Adams

Being famous doesn't mean much. Sure, you get photos, money, and popularity. But when you come to what people really want, they just want you to look bad.

Pablo Neruda

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

Pablo Neruda

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

As a practical matter, we all do have opinions of whether someone famous has done something wrong or not. But presumption of innocence has nothing to do with what goes on outside the courtroom.

Jennifer Grey

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Mae Whitman

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Sam Claflin

A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'

The most practical way to become famous is to survive a major tragedy.

James Purefoy

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

Rachel Sklar

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

A lot of people loved John Paul. His famous quote was that the youth were the salt of the earth.' Salt preserves things and it's up to the youth to preserve the faith. He did a lot for the younger generation.

It's a great thing in recruiting, playing our first game on national television at a time when there is no other game. But I don't know if this game can get much bigger. Florida State and Miami kind of speaks for itself. Guys know if they want to be famous just make a big play in this game.

Samantha Morton

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

You're not selling the property for the property sake itself. You're using the ill-gotten notoriety of one of the country's most famous serial killers to jack up the price.

You need to tell the famous stories, old and new. There are lots and lots of famous stories. You need to not shy away from those.

Rumi

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

Julian Barnes

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Robert Anthony

The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if I know anything about famous musicians, most of them will be sitting around muttering and grumbling and bitching about all the others.

Robert Kiyosaki

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Seth Rogen

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

Russell Crowe

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

Maisie Williams

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

Roger Daltrey

We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film.

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

These sorts of ships are famous for having stability problems. We can't rule out anything at this stage.

Will Young

I see my friends MORE now that I'm famous.

Daisy Ridley

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

Corey Brewer

They all have famous fathers and nobody knows my dad. He's just a normal guy.