What Is Fame Quotes

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

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

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

See I'm humble but I live fame, for more deals on the table than a Bridge game.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.