Fame Quotes
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.
I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.
