Carol Channing Quotes

I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

'Turn to Stone' was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.

I knew 'Crenshaw' had elevated me and distinguished me.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.

Everybody kind of recognizes you. It's a good feeling.

I think I'm a superstar.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

Every year I win, everything I do, it cements my legacy.

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

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

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

You may have heard of me.

I would like to be remembered as a good father. A good husband. A good brother. A good friend. A good man. But that is simply not going to happen. Like it or not, I have reached the point of infamy when I am going to be remembered simply as 'Ronnie Biggs', whatever or whoever he is in your mind.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.