What Is Fame Quotes
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
I'm not a suit and tie kind of guy. I wear a suit once a year, for the Hall of Fame, or if I have to go to a funeral or something. It's just not me.
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
