Fame Quotes
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
Homer -
How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
George Gilfillan
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
Susan Isaacs -
No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
Paul Sparks -
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron -
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Solon -
...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
Coco J. Ginger
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Horace Greeley -
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley -
The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it.
Bill Murray -
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.
Carl Gustav Hempel -
O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
Ezra Edelman -
Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
Erica Jong
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri -
Some people can handle fame, some can't.
Jonny Lee Miller -
To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
Henry Winkler -
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.
Woody Herman -
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
Homer -
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox -
I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas