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" Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. "

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" The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family. "

Rafael Nadal

Relationship

Good

Famous

" 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. "

" I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Joy

Clothes

" I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. "

" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "

" When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet. "

" A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. "

" I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. "

Danielle Steel

Because

Never

" I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. "

" I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous. "

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Everybody

Famous

" There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man

Selfish

Unselfish

" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "

" There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. "

" I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy. "

" Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy. "

" When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. "

" The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. "

" A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. "

Lord Byron

Know

Known

" 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. "

" These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move. "

" I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. "

" I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. "

" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "

" I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous. "

" Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous. "

Lady Gaga

Studio

Going

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

" In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. "

Patrick Dempsey

Los Angeles

Myself

" A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. "

" Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids. "

" Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. "