Fame Quotes
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
Harry Dean Stanton
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
Errol Morris
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
Rufus Choate
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
Homer
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Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.
Catherine Mayer
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Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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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
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Moon Unit Zappa
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I may not go down in the hall of fame, but I’m gonna enjoy my life. I’m gonna enjoy it for what it is.
Jack Owen Cannibal Corpse
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All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
Dolly Parton
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Tacitus
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett
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Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
Romain Duris
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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
Cat Deeley
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I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.
Caster Semenya
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I don't think I ever wanted fame.
Susan Sullivan
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
Dante Alighieri
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
David Bowie
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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
Gertrude Atherton