Fame Quotes - page 15

If they are unwilling to give, they should at least lend with all readiness and alacrity, not with the prospect of receiving anything back except the principal. ... In place of the interest which they determine not to accept they receive a further bonus of the fairest and most precious things that human life has to give, mercy neighborliness, charity, magnanimity, a good report and good fame. And what acquisition can rival these? Nay, even the great king will appear as the poorest of men if compared with a single virtue. For his wealth is soulless, buried deep in store-houses and recesses of the earth, but the wealth of virtue lies in the sovereign part of the soul, and the purest part of existence. (Philo)
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!" View quote
Ambrose Bierce
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. View quote
Emil Cioran
I took a walk with my fame down memory lane / I never did find my way back" Feel no shame / 'coz time's no chain" View quote
Noel Gallagher
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame. View quote
Nas
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it. View quote
Lady Gaga
Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life. View quote
Lady Gaga
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that. (Sheryl Crow)
His wiles were witty and his fame far known, Every king's daughter sought him for her own, Yet he was nothing to be won or lost. All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed He loathed the fraud, yet would not bed alone. View quote
Robert Graves
Dzagoev plays football not for fame and money, but because, football is his life. It is rare today that a victory is more important for a player, then the prize-money for it. But Alan - is exactly that case. View quote
Alan Dzagoev
There stood Mucius, despising the enemy and despising the fire, and watched his hand as it dripped blood over the fire on his enemy's altar, until Porsenna, envying the fame of the hero whose punishment he was advocating, ordered the fire to be removed against the will of the victim. View quote
Seneca
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. View quote
L. Frank Baum
I don´t feel famous, I am the same as a waiter or anybody that works in the club, there are people with fame and money but no feelings, and thats what´s important. View quote
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them. View quote
Wilkie Collins
A lot of people would say to me, "So Chris, you were bullied in high school and now you're famous, so you've had a Cinderella story.” And I'd think, "What? Are you kidding?” Fame is not a solution. I'm a Cinderella story because I was in an unfortunate situation, and now I'm in a place where I get to do what I love. View quote
Chris Colfer
Fame is but a fruit tree: So very unsound. It can never flourish Till its stalk is in the ground. So men of fame Can never find a way Till time has flown Far from their dying day. Forgotten while you're here, Remembered for a while. A much updated ruin From a much outdated style. View quote
Nick Drake
Why bother to remake Fame if you don't have clue about why the 1980 movie was special? Why take a touching experience and make it into a shallow exercise? Why begin with a R-rated look at plausible kids with real problems and tame it into a PG-rated after-school special? Why cast actors who are sometimes too old and experienced to play seniors, let alone freshmen? View quote
Roger Ebert
Who can you blame, parents or their friends or the children? In India every parent wants their child to earn more money and fame than any of their peers, no one wants their child to be set on a cultural journey and do tremendous things like other artists or musicians or sportsman have done. They think the entertainment sector won't earn them any job or money. I blame the parents. They should inspire their children to pursue their interest along with the regular studies. I feel really sorry about this. (Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Arundhati Roy risked the international fame she so clearly cherishes by going public with blatant lies about atrocities against named Gujarati Muslim women who turned out to be either non-existent or abroad at the time of the riots. Perhaps a fiction writer can afford this, but the news media with their deontology of accuracy and objectivity made themselves guilty of similar howlers. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody. View quote
Bode Miller
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! View quote
Thom Gunn
What, for instance, induced me, when so far distant from my country, voluntarily to devote myself to her cause? Her commerce? I neither knew nor cared any thing about it. Her funds? I was so happy as hardly to understand the meaning of the word. Her lands? I could, alas! lay claim to nothing but the graves of my parents.-What, then, was the stimulus? What was I proud of? It was the name and fame of England. Her laws, her liberties, her justice, her might; all the qualities and circumstances that had given her renown in the world, but above all her deeds in arms, her military glory. View quote
William Cobbett