Quotes About Prominence

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Be the sun and all will see you.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

A celebrity these days is somebody you've never heard of

The Great White Way.

The real novelty of our own time is not the prominence of the religious Right but the silence of the religious Left.

If I can work with Shyam Benegal and Yash Chopra together, who are the kings of art house and commercial cinema and win awards for both of them then it means I have placed myself everywhere.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.

People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

You can't make history going incognito.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

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

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

The prominence of the market I guess is important to some people. For me, it was less about the number and more about the opportunities that might open up in that market. One of the questions I wanted to know about that next job was, what's your weather like? I am into the weather!

When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.