Famous Bill And Ben Quotes

#1. I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life ... I can't dispute it.

Bill Bryson

#2. It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

Bill Vaughan

#3. Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")

Bill Bryson

#4. It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Bill Bryson

#5. I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.

David Bradley

#6. The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

Bill Jay

#7. There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Bill Murray

#8. Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Bill O'Reilly

#9. Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Bill James

#10. Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born.

Jason Fried

#11. To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

Bill Murray

#12. 2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Winston S. Churchill

#13. Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be
I weep to say it
Elizabeth I.

Bill Bryson

#14. The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

John McCain

#15. I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Bill Skarsgard

#16. If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio.

Bill Bryson

#17. After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

Roger Ross Williams

#18. I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous

David Bradley

#19. Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Bill Watterson

#20. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

#21. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Bill Murray

#22. The famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent ligh called foxfire.

Bill Bryson

#23. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

Bill Paxton

#24. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Bill O'Reilly

#25. I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them.

Rishabh Surya

#26. In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

Bill Gross

#27. All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

Bill James

#28. I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

Bill Murray

#29. Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

George Armstrong Custer

#30. I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

#31. It ain't nothing till I call it.

Bill Klem

#32. Like all limestones, the famous White Cliffs of Dover, on England's south coast, are made from numberless trillions of tiny marine organisms compressed over time into stone, and exist now as huge reservoirs of carbon. (credit 17.13)

Bill Bryson

#33. I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Bill Nighy

#34. Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.

Bill O'Reilly

#35. I invented it, Bill made it famous.

David Bradley