Notorious Quotes

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

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.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.

I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

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.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

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]

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

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.

Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[]

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

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.'

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

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.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.