Fame Quotes

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.

~ Timothy Beal

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

~ Alexander Pope

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

~ Simon Van Booy

A person's self worth or inner merit is the essential commodity, whereas fame is something secondary, the mere shadow of merit. It is not fame but whereby we merit it that is of true value....a man's greatest happiness is not that posterity will know something about him but he himself will develop thoughts that deserve consideration and preservation for centuries.

~ Yalom D. Irvin

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term

~ Emily Thorne

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousins had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry.And I don't know how you stand it- it's horrible she said bluntly.

~ J.k. Rowling

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

~ Dennis Prager

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t just make a name for yourself on earth; let your name be written in the book of life in Heaven, the seat of the Sovereign God!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

~ Dorothy Parker

Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.

~ Nicki Minaj

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

~ Zack W. Van

Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that.

~ Becky Wicks

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight...

~ Becky Wicks

She really liked you, Noah,''Yeah, well, maybe I'm just an asshole.'I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You're not an asshole I'm thinking, but for some reason I can't say it. It would be like admitting something else; like the fact that he's an asshole to every girl who likes him, but never to me. And then I'd have to really think about why that is and that's not something I'll ever be comfortable with at all, even though his eyes are like maps and his words are like anchors and his songs are like personal messages and I love all that.- Chloe

~ Becky Wicks

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do it after it's been done.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

~ Gustave Eiffel

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

~ Neil Gaiman

I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the ass. You should’ve heard the crowd, though, when he was finished. You would’ve puked. They went mad. They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn’t funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes though I was terrific, I’d hate it. I wouldn’t even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I’d play it in the goddam closet. Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow. Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player. It was very phony—I mean him being such a big snob and all. In a funny way, though, I felt sort of sorry for him when he was finished. I don’t even think he knows any more when he’s playing right or not. It isn’t all his fault. I partly blame all those dopes that clap their heads off—they’d foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance.

~ J.d. Salinger

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as brands. At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians.

~ Nancy Jo Sales

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

~ Grace Metalious

I'm less amazed with your success and more with how you remain unaffected by what it brings with it.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?

~ Susan Schussler

The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

~ Lady Gaga

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

~ Albert Einstein

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

~ Jimi Hendrix

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

~ J.k. Rowling

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

~ James Dean

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

~ Lionel Shriver

We're in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. When we landed at the airport in Boise, from Portland, Oregon this lady from our plane came up from behind as we walked down the terminal. She approached me and said Taylor, I just love your song and want to wish you great things in you career. I looked and her and said Well, THANK YOU! and then said who did you talk to?. (and then pointed to my Mom and the Label rep we were traveling with) I was convinced that one of them had talked to the lady on the plane and told her about me and my song. The lady said neither one and then I said Well, how did you know who I was? and the lady said because I listen to radio and I watched your video. This was the first time someone had actually KNOWN who I was and MY NAME. wow. I just walked over and hugged her, and said ....You're the first person who's ever done that, thankyou. It was an amazing moment to remember, and I always will.

~ Taylor Swift

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

~ Neal Shusterman

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.

~ Rupert Grint

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke