Quotes About Fame

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

I have been photographed to death.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history; If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.

Absolutely nobody in the entire United States of America has even a modicum of interest in who I am, but I'm determined to change that. Because if I can pull it off here, then I can kiss goodbye to tedious speeches, crappy TV jobs and all the other nonsense I have to do back in England to pay the bills.

There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old. This is the reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented.

parecerá su conducta poco conforme con estos principios, si no te fijas en que los hombres están poseídos del deseo de crearse un nombre y de adquirir una gloria inmortal en la posteridad; y que este deseo, más que el amor paterno, es el que les hace despreciar todos los peligros, comprometer su fortuna, resistir todas las fatigas y sacrificar su misma vida. ¿Piensas

Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Iovis ira nec ignes nec poterint ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas. cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi: parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelibile nostrum, quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris, ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama, siquid haben veri vatum praesagia, vivam.

Bite your tongue. My boyfriend is a rock god,baby.

Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey, sahte kahramanlar?n ünlerinden daha kal?c? deÄŸildir.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

I'm no John Grisham or Thomas Pynchon

In this age when innocence is ever more mocked, when truth is aggressively denied if not actively hated, when so many people despise those with whom they disagree, when priests and teachers molest those whom they should protect, when power and fame are celebrated but true law and modesty are disparaged, what fire wall remains between the people and the forces that would devour them?

They're good, but the Broncos are nothing to sneeze at. Heard of Peyton Manning? I liked him better in blue. We all did.