Famous Quotes
“So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.”
“I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.”
-- Mickey Gilley
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
-- Robert Benchley
“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.”
-- Lafcadio Hearn
“The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.”
-- Lawrence Lessig
“Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.”
-- George Thorogood