Fame Quotes - Page 15

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.