Famous Quotes
“I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.”
“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