Famous
Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
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Famous Quotations
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
Andy Warhol
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Lady Gaga
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
Lady Gaga
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Jesse Owens
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
Kate Moss
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette Davis
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
Brett Favre
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
Barbra Streisand
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison
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Famous Translations
famous in Afrikaans is beroemd
famous in Dutch is beroemd, befaamd, alom bekend
famous in Italian is famoso, famoso
famous in Latin is celebrer, inclutus inclitus, clarus, praeclarus
famous in Portuguese is famoso
famous in Spanish is famoso, afamado, afamado
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