Quotes About Prominence

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

It's a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The State of Israel is the strongest in the region and will remain so.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.

It was impossible for the daughter of Lady Liane Holmes-Aubrey Saint Martin and Keenan Saint Martin to go ignored.

He had dark, deepset, piercingly black eyes, overshadowed by eyebrows so bushy that he had to brush them away to see through the glass. But his most prominent feature was the thick growth of hair on his upper lip, long and black, lovingly maintained, measuring nearly a foot between its waxed and pointed tips. It was this feature that gave him his name, the most feared name on the sea: Black Stache.

Stone threw some weeds into a garbage pail and then spent some time shoring up an old tombstone that marked the resting place of a prominent African American preacher who'd lost his life in the fight for freedom. Odd, thought Stone, that one had to fight for freedom in the freest land on earth.

The more important you are, the later you arrive.

The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

Reputation is the road to power

Most psychiatrists believe that the borderline syndrome has been around for quite some time; that its increasing prominence results not so much from its spreading (like an infectious disease or a chronic debilitating condition) in the minds of patients but from the awareness of clinicians. Indeed, many psychiatrists believe that some of Sigmund Freud's most interesting cases of "neurosis" at the turn of the century would today be clearly diagnosed as borderline.20