Quotes About Renown

In the world of the spirits your name is famous.

People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina .

For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudible business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend

Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

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

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

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

I want to be famous everywhere.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

I want to be one of those ones: a legend.

It is perfectly possible for an energetic and powerfully galvanic will to win renown for its owner, while the deepest part of the personality which that towering will-power has to carry along with it, just as a swiftly driving chariot might have to carry in the belly of its body a writhing and squirming serpent, may be secretly twitching and quivering with all manner of maniacal distates and repugnances.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

I never pursued being 'famous.'