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Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

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

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

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Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Modeling's actually been treating me a lot better at age 24 than when I was 21. Young girls get their hopes up and have fifteen minutes of fame; it's really sad, because there are very few models who last anymore.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

My life and my whole eternity belongs to God.  All this stuff is temporary.  Money, fame, successtemporary.  Even life is temporary.  Jesusthat's eternal.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

My fame is largely due to young people, theyre the first ones to discover me.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

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

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.