Quotes About Fame

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I've been called Ellen DeGeneres on a number of occasions over the course of my career.

I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole.

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

Es difícil no simpatizar con Michaux: más vale ser desconocido que mal conocido. La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver. (Prólogo de «Las enseñanzas de don Juan»)

Columbus was carried back to Spain in chains, and a pickle dealer of Seville, who never rose above the position of mate of a schooner, gave his name to the world Columbus had discovered.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

They did not wait so eagerly for each new transmission from the ansible; the names that were famous on earth meant little to them now.

Famous at high school is like being employee of the month at the sanitation department.

I'll tell your story,' said Ender. 'Then I will truly live forever.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.

No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success—and for revenge.

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. Richard de Bury, The Philobiblon

In books, I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.

Er würde so berühmt werden, das niemand sich mehr an Albert Chanute erinnern würde.

When everybody loves you. Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be!