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.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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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.
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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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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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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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I’m very excited and honored to be elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Modeling's actually been treating me a lot better at age 24 than when I was 21. Young girls get their hopes up and have fifteen minutes of fame; it's really sad, because there are very few models who last anymore.
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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It stirs up envy, fame does.
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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.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
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I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.
