Quotes About Prominence

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

Much of my success as a Supermodel was not because I looked better than other models but that I marketed myself in a way that stood out.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.

I want TNA to grow as a company, it's better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?

I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

Anytime you can be the face of the UFC is so huge, a great honor, and I would do everything I could to keep it that way.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

To play for Manchester United in 1956 was not remotely of the same order of national prominence as to play for them half a century later. Not least because Taylor, Edwards, Viollet and the rest were on a basic wage of £15, with an appearance fee of £5 and a win bonus of £3.

Doing something prestigious does not equal being awesome.

If we feed the seed of an unselfish goal in our life with prominence, do our deeds with persistence, proceed with perseverance, accede patience; then we surely reap the result of a profound success with an excellence.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

People care about none but only those well-known.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

El miembro más débil de la familia de Cristo tiene mucho más valor y es más preciado a los ojos de Dios que el hombre del mundo más prominente. El primero vive para Dios y vivirá para siempre; el otro, con toda su superioridad, sigue muerto en su pecado. ¡Tú

They were, indeed, giants in the land in those days—because, of course, giants get their prominence partly by comparison with one's own height. Gulliver, after all, wasn't a giant until he came to the world of the Lilliputians. I