Fame Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't feel like a big star.

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 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.

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 can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

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

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

To many fame comes too late.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

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

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

I would like to be famous but unknown.