Quotes About Fame

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease

A)ll mortal greatness is but disease.

Foemen at morn, but friends at eve— Fame or country least their care: (What like a bullet can undeceive!)

Çünkü asl?nda hiçbir ÅŸey gelmiyordu ÅŸairin elinden, hiçbir kötülüÄŸün ortadan kald?r?lmas?na yard?mc? olam?yordu; yaln?zca dünyay? ihtiÅŸama boÄŸup yücelttiÄŸinde kulak veriliyordu ona, yoksa olduÄŸu haliyle anlatt???nda deÄŸil. Sadece yalan, ünün ta kendisiydi, yoksa bilgi deÄŸil

Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.

If a man is cruel by nature, cruel in action, the mortal world will call down curses on his head while he is alive, and all will mock his memory after death. But then if a man is kind by nature, kind in action, his guests will carry his fame across the earth and people all will praise him from the heart.

Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, all men pray that sufferings will befall him hereafter while he lives; and when he is dead all men make fun of him. But when a man is blameless himself, and his thoughts are blameless, the friends he has entertained carry his fame widely to all mankind, and many are they who call him excellent.

Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, 330 all men pray that sufferings will befall him hereafter while he lives; and when he is dead all men make fun of him. But when a man is blameless himself, and his thoughts are blameless, the friends he has entertained carry his fame widely to all mankind, and many are they who call him excellent.

The fact is, John Chapman might well be the best-known figure from our national past about whom most people know almost nothing at all.

Poverty and Discontent appear in every Face (except the Countenances of the Rich) and dwell upon every Tongue." He spoke of a few men, fed by "Lust of Power, Lust of Fame, Lust of Money," who got rich during the war.

Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.

O. J. Simpson drew bigger crowds, but most of his admirers were around 12 years old. Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau's garnishee file.

Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can't breath right, they can't function.

Thompson was inundated with fan mail and phone calls, which he said was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.

Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.

Nu pot s? spun c? sunt mulÈ›umit. Dar asta este. Ce poÈ›i face? Oamenii ??tia insist? s? împart? faima cu mine.