Betty Boop's Rise To Fame

Famous quotes containing the words betty, rise and/or fame:

“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)