Fame Quotes

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

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.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

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

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Fame is a big joke. Stars need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

I don't feel like a big star.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.