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Quotes About Prominence

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.
~ Alexandra Robbins
The Talented Tenth is alive and well today and visible in all arenas of prominence. 'That they may guide the mass away from the contamination and death of the worst, in their own and other races.' As they elevate themselves from the masses, they ensure their success and that of their fellow Talented Tenth friends.
~ Burgess Owens
I want to be visible to my fans.
~ Brahmanandam
I want to be famous everywhere.
~ Luciano Pavarotti
When your're nothing, people will ignore you but when you're on top that's when everybody swear they know you.
~ Unknown
It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
~ Sam Donaldson
I am the mainstream.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
God forbid that anyone should neglect present duties! To sit idly waiting for Christ, and not to attend to the business of our respective positions is not Christianity but fanaticism. Let us only remember in all our daily pursuits that we serve a Master who is coming again. If I can stir up just one Christian to think more of that second coming and to give it more prominence, I feel that this book will not have been published in vain.
~ J.C. Ryle
Pero, al mismo tiempo, veo una prueba clara en las Escrituras, que es el sentir de la Santísima Trinidad, que Cristo sea exaltado prominente y distintivamente en lo que a la salvación de las almas se refiere.
~ J.C. Ryle
the royal closet was clearly visible to many in the crowd, she must have stuck out like a dove among crows.
~ John Guy
It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.
~ John Guy
I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
~ Jeb Bush
Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.
~ Arlo Guthrie
The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
~ Marianne Moore
Be the sun among the stars. Let the world feel your light.
~ Terry Mark
You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal.
~ Eminem
The game-playing aspects of detective fiction came into prominence only after the First World War, as a symptom of people's reaction to carnage and bereavement; there was a hunger for escapism, and readers relished having the chance to solve a puzzle set in a detective story.
~ Unknown
Roman lawyers were expressly forbidden to receive fees for their service, and it is often rightly said that what Cicero gained by pleading in high-profile cases was public prominence.
~ Mary Beard
Many prominent families were affected by this disaster and would in time build the beautiful chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation on the spot, as a memorial to their lost loved ones.
~ Unknown
Weeds blend in; roses stand out.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo