Quotes About Renown

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

In Germany I am not so famous.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

Fionn went [...] to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman

Fame is a very strange animal.

he was punished by the envy of journalists, and by the malignant pedantry of half-civilised judges. Envy in his case overleaped itself: the hate of his justicers was so diabolic that they have given him to the pity of mankind forever; they it is who have made him eternally interesting to humanity, a tragic figure of imperishable renown.

For Dickinson as part of a middle-class community anxious about female creativity, self-assertion, self-expression, and egoism, Shakespeare and Stratford may have been emblems appropriate to her own task as a writer: to achieve literary renown but also authorial disappearance.

To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth. - Henry Newbolt

The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.

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

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Since the days of old, the wise and the good Have been left alone in their solitude, While merry drinkers have achieved enviable fame.

People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen. What's his name again?'

The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'

they've even named a building after him," said Dimitri.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

I don't feel famous.

One's name should always arrive slightly ahead of one's person,