Fame Quotes

I had lunch with my brothers,” Mark said, his face serious. “While you were still asleep. They told me. About Corey and that stupid set-up you agreed to where you’d pretend not to be my wife . . .”“I never agreed to pretend not to be your wife,” Dylan said.Mark’s face grew serious then. “That’s what it amounted to in the end though, didn’t it? You pulled away from me in exchange for me getting . . . what?”“Your career back,” Dylan said. “Your li

~ Nia Forrester

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.''My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette.

~ Elizabeth Hand

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall.

~ C.r. Strahan

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by a single lamp on a wide desk in a venerable hotel? Room service, coffee before dawn? The company of one friend, two? The choice: All of it or not? Some or none? Now, not now, maybe later?

~ Peter Heller

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

~ Harry Turtledove

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

~ Cleveland Amory

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

~ Bible

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

~ William Shakespeare

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

~ Lord Chesterfield

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

~ Nellie Melba

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

~ Sir George Savile

That sovereign of insufferables.

~ Ambrose Bierce

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

~ George Steiner

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

~ William Hazlitt

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

~ Voltaire

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

~ Henry Kissinger

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

~ William Mcfee

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

~ Antonio Porchia

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

~ Cato The Elder

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

~ Benjamin Franklin

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

~ Charles De Gaulle

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

~ Simeon Strunsky

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

~ William Osier

To be somebody you must last.

~ Ruth Gordon

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

~ John Churton Collins

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

~ Moritz Saphir

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

~ Michel De Montaigne

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

~ H. L. Mencken

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.

~ Emily Dickinson

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

~ James Howell