Famous Quotes

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

Maintain a receptive attitude!

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

Being famous is just a job.

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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 mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

Do your best when no one is looking.

Did you think I was immortal?

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

Service is what life is all about.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.