Fame Quotes

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!

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

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

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I don't think about my fame very much.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Fame is morally neutral.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.