World Famous Quotes

• In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

  Andy Warhol

  Future, World, Fifteen

  Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

  John Lennox

  World, Nonsense, Scientist

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• Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

  Drew Carey

  World, Captains, Obvious

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• You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

  Emanuel Steward

  Soccer, Sports, Fighting

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• Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

  Douglas Coupland

  Doors, World, Forget

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• I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

  Selma Blair

  Bombshells, World, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

  Ann Brashares

  Dying, World, Matter

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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• I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

  Tony Curtis

  People, Joy, World

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• You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Art, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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• Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Player, Chinese, World

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• Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.

  Charles McGrath

  Powerful, Media, Doe

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• I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.

  Mordecai Richler

  World, Canada

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• Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Doors, House

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• When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Stars, Children, Passion

  Source: seattlegayscene.com

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• I'm world-famous in West Bromwich.

  Frank Skinner

  World, West

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• I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.

  Christian Bale

  Missing, Teeth, World

  "Quotes". Personal Website, christian-bale.org.

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