Famous Quotes
“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”
“Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.”
-- Peter Carey
“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”
-- Susan Sontag
“The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.”
-- Kristen Stewart
“I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.”
-- O. J. Simpson
“Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.”
-- Mary Lou Retton
“I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.”
-- Eva Herzigova