Famous Quotes

"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."

Lillian Hellman on Famous

More quotes about Famous

• "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

  Andy Warhol on Famous

• "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 on Famous

• "What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

  Voltaire on Famous

• "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous

• "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

  Ambrose Bierce on Famous

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

• "People change and forget to tell each other."

• "Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

• "Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

• "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."

• "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."