Fame Quotes - page 7

Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (John Milton)
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. View quote
Winston Churchill
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do. View quote
Billy Childish
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. View quote
Colley Cibber
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. View quote
Annette Funicello
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. View quote
Sophia Bush
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them. View quote
Tom Felton
And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. (Tom Felton)
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. View quote
David Duchovny
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude." View quote
Juliette Lewis
I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it. View quote
Zac Efron
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech. View quote
Chris Brown
I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career. View quote
Leah LaBelle
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. View quote
Denis Waitley
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul. View quote
George Matthew Adams
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. (Bodhidharma)
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. View quote
Ed O'Brien
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have. View quote
Lloyd Banks
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. View quote
June Carter Cash
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. View quote
Peter Cushing