Fame Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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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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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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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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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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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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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
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If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
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People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
