Fame Quotes
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
John Milton
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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
Paul Sparks
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
Julia Roberts
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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.
Dante Alighieri
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
Richard O'Brien
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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
Paul Newman
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.
Alex Kendrick
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In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
Nicole Hollander
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
Benjamin De Casseres
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Home Run Baker
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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
Tom Conti
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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.
Robbie Williams Take That
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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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.
Dante Alighieri
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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.
Tom Hollander