Quotes About Adulation

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

Had he lived, grown up to have flaws, human failings like deception, foolishness and ignorance, would he be so easy to adore or be even worthy of adoration?

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Si se ve como Buda, camina como Buda, habla como Buda y actúa como Buda, con seguridad no es Buda, sino un impostor que tan sólo busca tu atención y adulación. Porque el verdadero Buda no querría nada de ti, mucho menos el reconocimiento de su grandeza, y sólo desearía tu propia realización.

Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.

She looked at him—those wide blue eyes—with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she'd been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found her car keys.

Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.

L'amour n'est il pas issu de l'esprit ? N'est il pas une émotion, un reflet de nous-même que l'on saisit dans le regarde de l'autre ? N'est il pas idéalisme, sublimation, adulation ? En vérité, si l'on pouvait aimer sans imaginer l'autre autrement qu'il n'est vraiment, j'aurais peut-être moins peur de l'amour. ~Doña Manuela Vivero

Plebe Aqueles que a adulam, para a utilizar, chamam-lhe mais rotundamente povo; os que a temem ou chacinam dão-lhe o nome de escumalha.

Como todos os deicidas, o Cientista é, na sua essência, tentador. Adula no homem a sua própria soberba, e domina-o prometendo-lhe a dominação.

We live in a country in which words are mostly used to cover the sleeper, not to wake him up; and therefore, it seems to me, the adulation so cruelly proffered our elders has nothing to do with their achievement—which, I repeat, was mighty—but has to do with our impulse to look back on what we now imagine to have been a happier time. It is an adulation which has panic at the root.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.