Washington Allston Quotes
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.Washington Allston
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Rachel Joyce -
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
Earl Weaver -
I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
Omari Hardwick
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
Hal Newhouser -
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz -
Fame creeps up on you.
Ian Mckellen -
I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni -
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Dana Hill
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot -
I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
Edgar Allan Poe -
All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!
Ursula K. Le Guin -
There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon -
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Sun Tzu -
I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
Hal Linden -
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
Aaron Eckhart -
I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
Harrison Ford -
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
Washington Allston