Sonny Bono Quotes

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher

• Money
• Fame
• Borrowing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Very
  • Directions

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Government

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Movie
  • Roles
  • Fit

• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Language

• I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Restaurant

• When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Age
  • News
  • Evening

• First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Competition
  • Wonderful

• I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Failure

• I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Beer

• Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Enemy
  • Fight

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• If all you're doing is grinding for the man, it's going to burden you. Once you say, 'Hey, I'm grinding for the man, but I'm putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,' you're working for you.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Money

• My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Borrowing