What Is Fame Quotes

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate anybody who has asked me for an autograph, or has complimented me as a fighter. When I go to the Hall of Fame events, I'm always well received and respected.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

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.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.