Fame Quotes - page 45

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. (Henry Rollins)
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave. View quote
Francis Scott Key
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. View quote
Geddy Lee
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. View quote
Tucker Max
My fame is due to broadcast television. View quote
John Hodgman
All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame. View quote
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote -- 'Play up! play up! and play the game! View quote
Henry Newbolt
I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame. (Julie Burchill)
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. View quote
Julie Burchill
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. View quote
Shakira
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. View quote
Shakira
I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. But there are always people close to me who I trust, who will scold me and pull my ears if I need it. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. View quote
Shakira
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Poets, orators, even philosophes, say the same things about fame we were told as boys to encourage us to win prizes. What they tell children to make them prefer being praised to eating jam tarts is the same idea constantly drummed into us to encourage us to sacrifice our real interests in the hope of being praised by our contemporaries or by posterity. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune. View quote
Robert Fulghum
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers. (Brad Pitt)
Fame is a Bleet, man. View quote
Brad Pitt
Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
As to Mr. Lincoln's name and fame and memory, - all is safe. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame, False to my passion, fatal to my fame, Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove So true to lewdness, so untrue to love? View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester