Famous quotes containing the words celebrity, fit, club and/or series:
“The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Germany is a queer country: one cant regard it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick, stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. I cant help feeling it a young and adorable countryadolescentwith the faults of adolescence.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 18241898, U.S. womens magazine editor and womans club movement pioneer. Demorests Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)
“Through a series of gradual power losses, the modern parent is in danger of losing sight of her own child, as well as her own vision and style. Its a very big price to pay emotionally. Too bad its often accompanied by an equally huge price financially.”
—Sonia Taitz (20th century)