Claim To Fame Quotes

#1. When a woman you have cried against postcoitus tells you she's leaving you for a man whose claim to fame is the conjoining of a soup spoon and a fork, you wait for the ringer, you wait for the joke.

Courtney Maum

#2. I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Amy Klobuchar

#3. I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.

Shane Carruth

#4. My fat is political because when I show it off it really seems to piss people off. My fat is political because I'm keeping it. My fat is political because it's fucking hot. My fat is my flag, my claim to fame, my battle scar, my secret fat girl society badge.

Virgie Tovar

#5. That she cried over the loss of a dog whose big claim to fame was that he could eat the crotch out of a pair of clean underpants in less than a minute?

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#6. My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Woody Herman

#7. His big claim to fame was that the Golden Fleece - that magical sheepskin rug I'm related to - ended up in his kingdom, which made the place immune to disease, invasion, stock-market crashes, visits from Justin Bieber and pretty much any other natural disaster.

Rick Riordan

#8. My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#9. I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

Steve McNair

#10. That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

Daniel Clowes

#11. I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.

Nicola Sturgeon

#12. When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Joy Bryant

#13. My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Chris Hughes

#14. Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

Crystal Chappell

#15. Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

Michael R. Burch

#16. Mickey Mouse ... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Annette Funicello

#17. It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.

Anton Zeilinger

#18. I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Haddam

#19. The sand was hard-packed and solid and wet, speckled all over with cockle shells in colors and patterns of such profusion and variety that they must have given the first Dutchmen the idea to go out into the sea and bring back precious things from afar.

Neal Stephenson

#20. Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Jeff Sessions

#21. True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#22. This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Don Henley

#23. There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

H. A. Berlin

#24. To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

Brian Tracy

#25. when Nietzsche's fame had begun to spread rapidly, she climbed on the bandwagon. She acquired the sole rights to all his writings, including even the letters that he had sent to others. She sued those who published material to which she could claim a right.

Walter Kaufmann

#26. Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

Koren Zailckas

#27. All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

Eugene H. Peterson

#28. None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#29. I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.

Melissa Marr

#30. Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Bob Dylan

#31. The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out.

Martin Lewis

#32. You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.

Rod Stewart

#33. Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

Michael Musto

#34. IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

Tariq Ramadan

#35. Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

Thomas Seward

#36. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Samuel Johnson

#37. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

#38. Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope