Quotes About Prominence

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

I actually don't feel famous.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

Not all important people are famous, and not all famous people are important. Let

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

I get the distinct impression that the prominence of Parker's husband and son shaped the presentation of how she ended up as part of the Comanche community in the first place. Parker's life is judged by the men to whom she was attached: a powerful and important husband and a powerful and important son. That she was kidnapped is fine because she married well.

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It said to only quote notable people—am I not notable enough for Goodreads?

I don't feel that Chinese designers have reached the level of prominence that European or American designers have, but we've noticed in fashion schools in the U.S. and in England and we've seen how much the makeup of the students in the classes have changed there in the last five to 10 years.

I have realised that it has become essential to promote your film. God forbid, if a film doesn't run, I shouldn't be blamed for that.

Does Tiger Woods tee off at 8 A.M. when he's going to win a Masters? Does Floyd Mayweather fight the first fight of the night? No, he's the main event, right? So the 'Stros need to be playing on prime-time television.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

Talent sticks out like a sore thumb.