There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism. - Alain Robbe Grillet This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist.... Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide.... Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out. - P G Wodehouse

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' - Kevin Costner There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me. - Daniel Radcliffe

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. - Van Morrison I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' - Kevin Costner I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different. - Jeff Daniels The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? - Ryan Adams and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts. - Paul Auster And now we come to the hard part. The endings, the farewells, the famous last words. If you don't hear from me often, Phileas, remember that you're in my thoughts. - Paul Auster There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part. - Lily Collins I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy. - Nicky Hilton

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world." "Michael Jackson lived here?" "No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley. - Rick Riordan ...one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world.. - Ann B Ross

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. - Van Morrison That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all. - Gordon Banks Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. - Annette Bening Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right. - David Carradine My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. - Aaron Carter If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special. - Roberto Cavalli I love being famous - it's phe

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. - Enya I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.' - Sam Worthington

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. - Dave Attell I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized. - Gabrielle Reece

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians. - Paula Danziger There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about. - Ian Rush

Mae West, a famous American vaudeville actress, once said, "A man's kiss is his signature." I grinned to myself. If that was true, then Ren's signature was the John Hancock of kisses. - Colleen Houck If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine. - Shelley Long

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. - Emily Blunt The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a Rolling Stone cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous. - Bret Easton Ellis

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. - Emily Blunt Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of. - Tia Carrere It's not my goal to be a famous actor. - Gavin Degraw The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a Rolling Stone cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous. - Bret Easton Ellis

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded. - Kristen Bell If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. - Jean Cocteau That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. - Suzanne Farrell Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing. - Macy Gray Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right. - Carnie Wilson I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star. - Edgar Winter

But I don't feel the need to be famous. - Jessica Alba Thomas," Chess said, "if you don't want to be famous and have your stories heard, then why'd you start the band up?" "I heard voices," Thomas said. "I guess I heard voices. I mean, I'm sort of a liar, enit? I like the attention. I want strangers to love me. I don't even know why. But I want all kids of strangers to love me." The Indian horses screamed. - Sherman Alexie In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous." - Andy Warhol Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you reall

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? - Ryan Adams I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. - Bette Davis It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. - Lillian Hellman I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. - Charlie Kaufman How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? - Jeanjacques Rousseau

I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That's one of my favorite lines of all time. It's from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry. - Valerie Thomas I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous. - Ann Wilson

He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode. - Terry Pratchett One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them. - Karen Essex

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers. - Clive Anderson I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated. - Louie Anderson A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. - Van Morrison I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. - Dave Attell Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. - Oksana Baiul Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. - Juliette Binoche This is weird. There's a dead woman in fr

In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead. - Douglas Adams I wasn't a great debater. - Jack Kemp Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines. - Dick Morris The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. - John Negroponte

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision - Carl Sandburg Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore. - Rudyard Kipling These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. - Winston Churchill For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you. - Sofia Coppola I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. - Tom Cruise I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. - Ernest Newman I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. - Maurice Ravel

I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. - Margaret Atwood I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment. - Roy Ayers It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen. - Lara Flynn Boyle A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. - Glenn Hughes The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment. - Julia Louisdreyfus The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one. - Vanessa Mae T

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company. - Jim Barksdale To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. - Carly Fiorina To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. - Howard Schultz If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company. - Vandana Shiva Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there). - Dacia Wilkinson

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. - Jack Black I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian. - Larry David I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. - Leila Josefowicz It takes many years to be a great comedian. - Don Rickles Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. - Joe Rogan Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. - Florenz Ziegfeld

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. - Michael Gartner Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. - Kristi Yamaguchi

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person. - Julia Louisdreyfus I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation. - Gerald Scarfe Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there! - Meg Cabot When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. - William Shatner It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. - Oscar Wilde Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You're hurting in there. That would make akri very sad. He doesn't like for his Dark-Hunters to hurt and the Simi don't like it when akri is sad. Why are you hurt? (Simi) - Sherrilyn Kenyon One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. -Frodo to Sam - J R R Tolkien I said maybe I was too sad for the job: didn't they want a more upbeat personality in their girls? But Mordis smiled with his shiny black-ant eyes and said, as if he was patting me: Ren. Ren. Everyone's too sad for everything. - Margaret Atwood Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up. - Francesca Lia Block And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow. I would do anything to make this go away. I miss her terribly. I have to stop writing now because I am too sad. Love always, Charlie - Stephen Chbosky Women

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love - Amit Abraham Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore. - J R R Tolkien That was one of the saddest things about people- their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. - Alexandra Adornetto I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn't be put into words. That was one of the saddest things about people - their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood - Alexandra Adornetto We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul ne