Quotes About Famous

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

The most famous story about gravity involves Isaac Newton and an apple that supposedly fell on his head, inspiring him to concoct his theory of universal gravitation. (It's mostly famous because Newton himself couldn't stop telling it later in life, in an unnecessary attempt to add some extra juice to his reputation as a genius.)

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

Charles Dickens was born in England in 1812. He is one of the most famous writers of all time.

Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.

Long before he became well known for his atheism, Dawkins was famous for the ideas set out in his book The Selfish Gene.

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

He said that architecture was truly the greatest of the arts, because it was anonymous, as all greatness. He said that the world had many famous buildings, but few renowned builders, which was as it should be, since no one man had ever created anything of importance in architecture, or elsewhere, for that matter.

The result is autobiographical, although whenever someone's asked me over the course of these last three years just what the book is about, I've usually avoided such a description. An autobiography promises feats worthy of record, conversations with famous people, a central role in important events. There is none of that here.

The other advantage of making the author a famous religious figure of the past is that such books often purport to tell the future.

So too the famous preacher and bishop of Constantinople, John, who was so eloquent in the pulpit that he earned the sobriquet Chrysostom, which means "golden-mouthed.

Balfour wrote the famous Balfour Declaration, dated November 2, 1917, in the name of the country's cabinet in a letter

A reporter once sent Cary Grant the telegram, "How old Cary Grant?" He replied, "Old Cary Grant fine.

I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Esta sera mi venganza: Que un dia llegue a tus manos el libro de un poeta famoso y leas estas lineas que el autor escribio para ti y tu no lo sepas!

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

James Butler Hickok was the most famous gunslinger of the Old West; a man known to be reluctant to shoot, but when it became necessary, his draw was "as quick as thought" and his aim was always true.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.