Fame Quotes
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
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It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
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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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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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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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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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I don't care about fame. Problems everywhere.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
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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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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
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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.
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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.
