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Having a brother who is so famous and does well for club and country might seem really good but when people make comparisons all the time sometimes you just want to known for being you!
View quotes by Anton Ferdinand

Cartesian: relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum 'Cogito Ergo Sum'.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

'And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell', said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'
View quotes by Robert Southey

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
View quotes by Bill Vaughan

I am a good person. I'm not craving limelight... I've got a hell of a lot riding on this. It might make me incredibly famous but it might not. It might take me back to where I am now, which would be devastating [on Big Brother]
View quotes by Faria Alam

When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.
View quotes by Paul Potts

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
View quotes by John Lennon

He's beloved. Not many players become what he has become. You know that he [Agassi] is going to be equally famous and equally successful in his post career.
View quotes by Lindsay Davenport

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
View quotes by Clive Anderson

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
View quotes by Dorothy Parker

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.
View quotes by Vince Cable

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
View quotes by Richard DeVos

There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their son. ('The Lion and Albert', 1932)
View quotes by Marriott Edgar

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
View quotes by Duke Ellington

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. [the famous Euler that set the foundation for mathematics]
View quotes by Leonhard Euler

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? People are nice to ya, they give you the beneift o' the doubt... You drive a flash car down the freeway and the cops'll pull y'over and before they even look they like 'What the f**k are you doing?' and then they see it's you and they like 'Awww man, it's Chris Rock, it's okay, man we thought you was a nigga'.
View quotes by Chris Rock

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. [Don't forget to smell the roses, to paraphrase another famous quote]
View quotes by Ben Hogan

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it.
View quotes by Silvia Colloca

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
View quotes by Alan Alda

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
View quotes by Ray Charles

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