Fame Quotes

• There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Important
  • Art
  • Culture

• O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thought
  • Delight
  • Unworthy

• What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Share

• Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Fame
  • Included
  • Famous People

• It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Angry
  • Illusion
  • Behind The Scenes

• Peter Grant. Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Fame
  • Arrival
  • Recent

• People will hate you for no reason, or for bad reasons, or even for good reasons. People are torn apart by fame, and this is far beyond what most of them deal with. You're talking about yourself like you're a tool, but you're a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Life
  • Deal

• A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  

  Dan Graham
  • Art
  • Values
  • Economic

• Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

  

  William Cowper
  • Virtue
  • Prove
  • Conscience

• Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Mean

• I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Work
  • Pay
  • Rent

• My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

  

  Woody Herman
  • Fame
  • Claim
  • Editor

• Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • World
  • Giving

• Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

  

  Confucius
  • Fame
  • Trade
  • Desires

• All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • Attention
  • Fame

• I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

  

  Wolfman Jack
  • Money
  • Never
  • Prayed

• I feel like fame is wasted on me.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Fame

• Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.

  

  Anthony de Jasay
  • Understand
  • Student
  • Prose

• The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Moon
  • Harmony
  • Cry

• Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Flower

• Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Men
  • Destination
  • Pointless

• Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

  

  Cintra Wilson
  • Stop
  • Deserve
  • Miserable

• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Care
  • Fame
  • Ridiculous

• Fame is not like a jacket. You can't put it on and then take it off.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fame
  • Jacket
  • Take Off

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