Fame Quotes

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

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.