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Quotes About Notorious

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
~ Christopher Poole
Vince was notorious. He would easily have been the world's most terrifying human had he but been human. I don't know quite what he was, other than it was five feet six inches of wiry malevolence in a grubby T-shirt. Reliable rumor had it that he had not been born, but burst fully formed from his mother's belly and then skittered off to the sewers.
~ Bill Bryson
Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.
~ Julius Lester
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
~ Timothy Noah
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'
~ Stephen Hunter
As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.
~ Stephen Richards
This is it?" he asked. "Yeah," Megan replied. "Wow. I thought girls were notorious for overpacking." "I'm not much of a girl," Megan replied. What? What did you just say? He looked her up and down and smiled. "Could've fooled me.
~ Kate Brian
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Long considered godless vagabonds, professional performers in France had officially been forbidden the sacraments until 1790. Many, in past centuries, had never bothered to secure the necessary dispensations—obtainable through confession to a sympathetic priest and a few discreet bribes—that would have allowed them to marry with the blessing of the Church, and so the immorality of actors had become notorious.
~ SUSANNE ALLEYN
Hezbollah is notorious for using charities and front organizations to hide its funding sources.
~ Mark Meadows
Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.
~ J.M. Darhower, Reignite
Besides being notoriously literate, the princess was noted for her political acumen and great beauty.
~ Kris Waldherr
I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.
~ George R.R. Martin
If Fay has twins, she'll probably have two pacs. Get it? Tu... Pac's.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Mike Tyson has become larger than life.
~ Thomas Hauser
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
[Of Byron:] Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
~ Lady Caroline Lamb
Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.
~ Geraldine Brooks
la vida, la famosa vida...
~ Giorgio Bassani
Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can, here in Europe, on radio and television—in fact, have just returned from a land, Germany, which was made notorious by a silent majority not so very long ago.
~ James Baldwin
You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
~ Manny Montana
Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.
~ Theo Aronson
Why it was later named after a notorious inmate
~ Clive Cussler