Fame Quotes
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I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game.
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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.
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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.
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Sam Jackson is a director's dream. Some actors hope to find their character during shooting. He knows his character before shooting. Sam's old-school. I just got out of his way. I never did more than two takes with Sam.-william friedkin
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
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At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
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Peter Grant. Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.
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Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
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The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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No record of her high descent There needs, nor memory of her name; Enough that Raphael’s colors blent To give her features deathless fame.
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The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
