Famous Quotes

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”
― Bob Marely

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.”
― George Lucas

“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“People do not undermine your ideas; they undermine you.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.”
― Richard Hamming

“Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.”
― Olya Barnett

“A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

“Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult.”
― Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

“Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.”
― Emily of New Moon

“Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.”
― Sandeep Sharma, Let The Game Begin

“There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end.”
― Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

“As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.”
― Arthur Wellesley

“There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised that, if blondes have more fun, then blond pirates must have a heck of a lot more fun.”
― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

“Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. ”
― Himmilicious, The Clicked Shutterbug.

“or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire

“Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Las estrellas del espectáculo viven en estado de irrealidad hasta que estallan como supernovas”
― Juan Villoro

“life is like a box of chocolates. You never know which kind you're gonna get.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know which kind yo're gonna get”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“I’ve known plenty of men my age who have done the mid-life crisis thing only to wake up one morning and realise what it is they’ve thrown away.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Because money changes things. You know that it changes the way you see people and it changes the way people see you.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“What your dad did was terrible, there's no two ways about it. But I think you've got to try to forgive him, if not for his sake, then for your own.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Why's it always my job to clear up the mess you've created? Why am I the one having to pick up all the pieces of the things you've broken? Well, I've had enough”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“It’s so peaceful here. The real world feels like it's a million miles away.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Sometimes you convince yourself that the only option is just to carry on, put your head down and get on with it, when really, all you really need is to step off the merry-go-round and allow yourself to get things in perspective.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“This place just keeps on giving, just when you think you've seen everything, it surprises you.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Life couldn't be this cruel, couldn't be this unfair, could it? She'd told herself that this had to be a nightmare, some awful dream from which she would wake at any second; it couldn't be reality, it just couldn't be the truth.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Just another in a long line of broken lonely men who had convinced themselves that power and wealth could fill the empty void at the centre of their souls.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Life wouldn't always feel this dark, she would find the strength to keep going, and once the funeral was over, she would make it her mission to find both light and hope again.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You