Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Baker

When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

What also brought us together was Jim's dedication to junior golf. Having a world famous teacher as part of the Legends team will strengthen our reputation and commitment to junior golf and its promotion in this province.

Mike Newell

What he said was 'You must read the book and if you find a way of doing the book, then you must tell us what that is. You mustn't come because it's a franchise. You mustn't come because it's the most famous children's film that's ever been. You mustn't come for this that and the other reason. You've got to be able to see how to make a 750-page book into a single movie,'

Kevin Bacon

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

William Shakespeare

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

William Shakespeare

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

Charles J. Givens

Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

We've always been famous for our homemade cream pies and hams.

we are pleased to announce that we have an agreement to sell the Fifth Avenue Cinemas to Festival Cinemas. This is the second theatre sale we have announced since completing the acquisition of Famous Players on July 22, 2005.

Anne Beatts

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

West Palm Beach was famous for its art deco streetscapes.

Lew Wasserman

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Li Bingbing

It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.

Mark Helprin

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Mark Helprin

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Nikki Cox

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

Holly Lisle

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

Alexander Payne

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Frank Muir

Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Elizabeth I

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Arlo Guthrie

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.

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

Kendra Wilkinson

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

Ken Stott

Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

Jane Goodall

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.