Fame Quotes - Page 10
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.335
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
"Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.
Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.
Singing the song "Paparazzi" during MTV Video Music Award, 2009.
"Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.
John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.297
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 78
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.
Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118