Fame Quotes
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Thomas Carlyle
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
George Michael
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
Stephen Rea
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It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
Red Faber
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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
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
Homer
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
Petrarch
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For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
Bonnie Fuller
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron
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A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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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
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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
Dante Alighieri
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Steve Martin
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
Alexander McQueen
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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
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
Tiger Woods
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin