quotes about Notorious
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Notorious is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.
-- Bellamy Young -
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
-- Erik Satie -
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
-- James Kern FeiblemanSource : James Kern Feibleman (1978). “New proverbs for our day”, Horizon House Pubs
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The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.
-- John Harvey KelloggSource : John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”
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When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
-- John Lahr -
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
-- Joseph Addison -
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
-- Karl Rove -
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Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.
-- Kerry CohenSource : Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity”, p.236, Hachette UK
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I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.
-- Lola Montez -
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
-- Paul Getty -
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
-- Plutarch -
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
-- Robert PinskySource : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.
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It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.
-- Santiago Ramon y CajalSource : Charlas de Cafe
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Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
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It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
-- Thurgood Marshall -
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.
-- Tom UptonSource : Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.90, Tom Upton
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As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.
-- Karla Cheatham Mosley -
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When I look at the women, it's from a male gaze of being fascinated, because beyond my mother, I've been around notorious women all of my life, and then, secondly, when I look at women and try and create fictional stories around them.
-- Miles Aldridge -
Florida is kind of notorious. But also because it's a rich place. Phonetically, narratively, historically. I wanted to know Florida better and I could easily find stories. My relationship with Florida is fraught because I didn't want to be living there always, but then after I left I really missed it.
-- Sarah Gerard -
Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.
-- Tennessee Celeste Claflin -
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
-- Periander -
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If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.
-- Mahathir Mohamad -
I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.
-- Mandy Rice-Davies