Fame Quotes
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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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My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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Peter Grant. Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.
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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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If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
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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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Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
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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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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
