I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
“The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today—Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia—even though the part that the very… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the Isle of Man support me and it makes it all worthwhile when people are interested in… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
You had to change who you were to become famous. I thought that for a very long time. Even after signing a… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“Poetic Terrorism WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
“Suppose you are particularly rich and well-to-do, and say on that last day, 'I am very rich; I am tolerably well known;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“banjo. A plucked, fretted lute where a thin skin diaphragm is stretched over a circular metal frame amplifying the sound of the… — Liz Doherty Copy Share Image
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
“We will never have any memory of dying. We were so patient about our being, noting down numbers, days, years and months,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image