Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

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

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

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

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Being famous is just a job.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.