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Quotes About Infamy

Pride breakfasted with Plenty Dined with poverty Supped with Infamy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.
~ Dave East
People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.
~ Al Michaels
Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
~ Ruth Rendell
There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
~ Richard Holbrooke
The Stinkface made a lot of people famous. If you made the Stinkface list, you were pretty much famous. I knew once Vince McMahon took the Stinkface, everybody else was gonna line up for the Stinkface, and that's exactly what happened.
~ Rikishi
Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
~ Henry Rollins
Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
The one thing people loved more than an outlaw was seeing him punished.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I beg to differ," said Doyle. "Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
He is ever inglorious His laugh is laborious His smell is notorious Impale the herring king!
~ Shannon Hale
For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" because it took too long to set the type for "Gunfight in the Vacant Lot behind Camillus Fly's Photography Studio Near Fremont Street.
~ Mary Doria Russell
To understand the cautious respect for the dead that pervades the modern anatomy lab, it helps to understand the extreme lack of it that pervades the field's history. Few sciences are as rooted in shame, infamy, and bad PR as human anatomy.
~ Mary Roach
Few sciences are as rooted in shame, infamy, and bad PR as human anatomy. The troubles began in Alexandrian Egypt, circa 300 B.C. King Ptolemy I was the first leader to deem it a-okay for medical types to cut open the dead for the purpose of figuring out how bodies work.
~ Mary Roach
thirty pieces of silver.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
When her brother turned Pearl Harbor over to the Americans in 1887, she wrote in her diary that it was "a day of infamy in Hawaiian history.
~ Stephen Kinzer
I don't want to be remembered as the guy who had a fight in the street.
~ Ben Stokes
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!
~ Ronald Biggs
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
~ Albert Camus
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
~ Bette Davis
In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star
~ Bette Davis
Ulrich the Axe, famed for his bloody deeds among Christians and pagans alike.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
~ Sirhan Sirhan
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
~ Pauly Shore