Famous World Sayings

#1. Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash. He's been thrown out of his own bar by his own daemons. - Author: Neal Stephenson

#2. A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel. - Author: Stephen Kinzer

#3. As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting. - Author: Idris Elba

#4. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. - Author: Pankaj Mishra

#5. Out of the hundreds of people that refuse to speak up and turn their backs on abused and neglected parrots, it's the one that stands up against the injustice that's going to be world famous. - Author: Jes Furhmann

#6. We apply reality from within. The world is our perception of the world. So what other people think of you, famous or not, is an independent construct taking place in their brain, and we shouldn't worry too much about it. - Author: Russell Brand

#7. I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession. - Author: Adrian Grenier

#8. The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection. - Author: Mark Carwardine

#9. To set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. - Author: Marie-Antoine Careme

#10. I had a lot of time on my hands and so I fell into the world of books. I read and read and read some more. I read every single thing that I could lay my hands on - even if authors were not well known or famous. I began seeing the world through their eyes. - Author: Preeti Shenoy

#11. Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better. - Author: Scott Patterson

#12. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. - Author: Aberjhani

#13. I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. - Author: Eric Davis

#14. My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. - Author: Kevin Bacon

#15. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top. - Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world. - Author: Jerry Springer

#17. You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. - Author: Evel Knievel

#18. I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged. - Author: Brandon Stanton

#19. If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives. - Author: Billy Graham

#20. I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#21. I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. - Author: John Le Carre

#22. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people. - Author: Percy Sledge

#23. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person. - Author: Larry Hagman

#24. My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it. - Author: Ronan Farrow

#25. For the sake of comfort we give up knowing the world" This is something that has been in my head since I was a teenager and I cannot be sure it is original. In the book, I have credited it to that famous wit "anon". Does anybody know the source? - Author: Anonymous

#26. And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world. - Author: Jenny Downham

#27. Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it? - Author: Tim Curry

#28. I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. - Author: Dan Shechtman

#29. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world. - Author: Wilma Rudolph

#30. The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest. - Author: Klaus Von Klitzing

#31. I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. - Author: Izabella Scorupco

#32. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. - Author: Aberjhani

#33. I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve? - Author: B.B. Taylor

#34. I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous. - Author: Trina Gulliver

#35. Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school. - Author: Alison Gopnik

#36. I want to grow up and do something cool with my life, such as build an orphanage in a third world country like all those saintly Hollywood celebrities. That or, like, cause a scandal and become mega-famous. - Author: Shirley Marr

#37. What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true. - Author: Charlotte Le Bon

#38. We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right? And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something. - Author: John C. Wright

#39. I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role ... I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here. - Author: Will Smith

#40. Yes. It was awful. What sucks even more is that it happened at 'World Famous San Diego Zoo,' that whore of a tourist attraction that insists on forty-seven billboards on every highway and nonstop advertising loops on radio and television. - Author: Michelle Gable

#41. It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable. - Author: David Suchet

#42. He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. - Author: Michael Feinstein

#43. Are you as famous in your world as Kell is here?"
Lila thought of the wanted posters lining her London. "Not for the same reasons. - Author: V.E Schwab

#44. For all of his early promise on a law school faculty and his seat in the Illinois Senate, Obama in 2002 had no money, no political organization and a name that rhymed with the world's most famous terrorist. - Author: Anonymous

#45. Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews. - Author: Pola Negri

#46. I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star. - Author: K.D. Sanders

#47. The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. - Author: Kurtis Blow

#48. You wanna another truth?
Do you have the guts??
To hear it?
Do you have the money to pay for it?
...
The adults make the children miserable, the adults kill children, the adults abuse the children, the adults have made the world, famous as now which you see it... - Author: Deyth Banger

#49. Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker. - Author: Ray Comfort

#50. It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#51. One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world. - Author: Josephine Baker

#52. How many people must there be, who are completely unknown in this world, but they are famous in the sky.
There are people on this earth who may seem insignificant to you and me. But they are beloved to Allah and their name is constantly mentioned among the angels in the sky. - Author: Nouman Ali Khan

#53. We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in ... - Author: Scott Westerfeld

#54. I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. - Author: Frank Abagnale

#55. Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. - Author: Douglas Coupland

#56. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. - Author: Aberjhani

#57. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. - Author: David Lee Roth

#58. It's possible in today's world to be instantly famous, whether it's through Instagram or whatever platform it may be, but it's a very different matter to be successful financially and in the long-term - Author: Anna Wintour

#59. Some say their world's will end in fire, some say in ice From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those yu favor fire. My world may not be ending although it does feel like it. I do know this, whatever doesnt kill you only makes you stronger. - Author: Genesis

#60. The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
Yet still, they began their journeys. - Author: Mike Dooley

#61. Being famous is like putting yourself on a pedestal for the entire world to see, and not caring about what judgements are made of you. - Author: Chris Colfer

#62. I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away. - Author: Kate Burton

#63. We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness. - Author: Lorde

#64. Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. - Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

#65. I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. - Author: George Clooney

#66. 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. - Author: Michael Eric Dyson

#67. Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me. - Author: Peter Saul

#68. Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world. - Author: John Paul DeJoria

#69. Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players. - Author: Xavi

#70. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world. - Author: Evelyn Waugh

#71. Charlie snorted. Sure. Insta-friends with one of the world's most famous rock stars. ZERO weirdness. Check. And you're not my type either, dude. - Author: Anne Eliot

#72. Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world. - Author: Martha Reeves

#73. I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people. - Author: Sophia Myles

#74. I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.' - Author: Caitlin Moran

#75. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. - Author: Wynonna Judd

#76. Inventions have long-since reached their limit
and I see no hope for further developments.
Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD) - Author: Julius Frontinus

#77. Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way. - Author: Phil Robertson

#78. Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.' - Author: Harriet Walter

#79. Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can. - Author: Grace Meng

#80. I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. - Author: Kristin Scott Thomas

#81. The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right. - Author: Lynne Reid Banks

#82. Just that he was Hollywood handsome in the sense that I was pretty sure he was famous, because if there was anything right in this world, he simply had to be. Uh ... hi, - Author: Kristen Ashley

#83. I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next. - Author: Doug TenNapel

#84. I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog - Author: Robin Hawdon

#85. The Disneyland installation of "its a small world" opened in 1966, and currently features 297 dolls and 256 toys representing six continents and singing the famous song in five languages. - Author: The Imagineers

#86. Avoid being narrow-minded; it's a fat world. - Author: Benny Bellamacina

#87. Everyone was busy down in the town streets. Some are searching for wealth, others seeking glory. Some want to be become famous, while others want to be worthy ... it's a rotten world actually. - Author: Sherif A. El-Mawardy

#88. Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ending, even though it feels like it. I do know this however, what doesn't kill you only mke you stronger. - Author: Genesis

#89. 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. - Author: Dave Barry

#90. In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. - Author: Mark Helprin

#91. You're so beautiful," he says, dragging his hands through my hair. When our mouths meet, it's less desperate, less frantic than before, because we know we have all the time in the world in front of us. No more roadblocks, no more missed opportunities, our future starts now, together. - Author: Heather Leigh

#92. Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. - Author: Dee Dee Myers

#93. Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks. - Author: Cameron Russell

#94. As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product. - Author: Guy Kawasaki

#95. 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. - Author: Charles McGrath

#96. Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists. - Author: John Lennox

#97. I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer. - Author: Peter Lik

#98. I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs. - Author: Maya Goded

#99. Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. - Author: Gordon Brown

#100. Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen. - Author: Sean Lennon