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Quotes About Fame

So Jimmy gained a beautiful wife and Catherine gained a bank account. Bobby shrugged. Sounds like half the marriages of the rich and famous. What's the problem?
~ Lisa Gardner
I never know whether to thank Will Smith or hit him.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a
~ Lisa See
Whatever good we accomplish, the Lord is ultimately responsible, and He alone deserves the praise. The whole purpose of our lives is to magnify His fame and "sing the glory of his name."29
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Fame as she walked at evening in a city saw the painted face of Notoriety flaunting beneath a gas-lamp, and many kneeled unto her in the dirt of the road. Who are you? Fame said to her. I am Fame, said Notoriety. Then Fame stole softly away so that no one knew she had gone. And Notoriety presently went forth and all her worshippers rose and followed after, and she led them, as was most meet, to her native Pit.
~ Lord Dunsany
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.
~ Loretta Chase
These consecrated ones, by their lifestyles and anointings, shook people out of their complacency and confronted the religious status quo with a burning zeal for the name and fame of God.
~ Lou Engle
A name is what a man makes it," I
~ Louis L'Amour
Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?
~ Louis Sachar
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.
~ Louisa May Alcott
An old maid, that's what I'm to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps…
~ Louisa May Alcott
notoriety is not real glory.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient, so I wish to take the sense of the meeting on this important subject, said Jo, calling a family council.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient
~ Louisa May Alcott
you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thought of fame or money, and put your heart into it, my daughter; you have had the bitter, now comes the sweet;
~ Louisa May Alcott
Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.
~ Ron Chernow
He craved a privacy impossible for the world's most famous banker.
~ Ron Chernow
Pierpont was a lonely man, and fame probably only deepened his isolation.
~ Ron Chernow
Many thought he was being retained because his name was Rockefeller
~ Ron Chernow
Pero la fama también tenía su precio. No paraban de dar entrevistas y de ser reclamados en todas partes y Pierre, disminuido por la enfermedad, se sentía angustiado por el tiempo que eso les robaba del trabajo.
~ Rosa Montero
La fama es la versión más barata, inestable y artificial del triunfo.
~ Rosa Montero
While to a grown woman his being a rock star was a bit distasteful
~ Roslyn Hardy Holcomb