Famous Quotes

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The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good… — Michael Jordan
I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus. — Nicki Minaj
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow… — Noel Coward
I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center… — Tom Hanks
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest… — Terry Pratchett
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so… — Dave Barry
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have… — Pablo Picasso
I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress. — Jane Siberry
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… — Samuel Johnson
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and… — Ernst Mayr
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin,… — Barack Obama
I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never… — Elisabeth Moss
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about… — Ralph Lauren
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. — Charles Bukowski
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow… — Zig Ziglar
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. — William Wordsworth
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around… — William Carlos Williams
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted… — William Butler Yeats
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men. — Thucydides
Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of… — Sean Connery

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