Quotes About Prominence

I don't necessarily get rubs from championships, I'd like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.

It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

The critics of the New Deal exaggerated the power of the intellectuals and also portrayed them as impractical, irresponsible, conspiratorial experimentalists, grown arrogant and publicity-conscious because of their sudden rise from obscurity to prominence.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Glorify what is great not what is important.

Reputation is the road to power

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

It's better to be looked over than overlooked. —MAE WEST

It really was truth or consequences, and Billy went with truth. It was just incredible." Forsaking public prominence, Strayhorn found personal freedom in service to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Now there might not be a Billy Strayhorn Orchestra. But there was a Billy Strayhorn.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.