Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

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

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

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

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

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He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

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

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Honestly, I didn't think that I would be recognized so easily.

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

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 can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.