fame

1.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

- Burchill, Julie

2.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear. Not all my genius, great as'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! W.J. Candleton

- Ambrose Bierce

4.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

- Cato The Elder

5.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

6.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

- Tracy, Brian

7.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

8.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

- Sade, Marquis De

9.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

10.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

- Huxley, Aldous

12.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

To many fame comes too late.

- Camoens, Luis De

14.

If fame is to come only after death, I amin no hurry for it.

- Martial [Marcus ValeriusMartialis]

15.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

- Vanderbilt, Gloria

16.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

- Mills, C. Wright

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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

Fame is a constant effort

- Renard, Jules

19.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

20.

Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities.

- Clay Aiken