Top 25 Fame Quotes of 788 - Page 5

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

People, Spotlight, Fame

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Morning, Fame, Found

Quoted in Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). Byron wrote this in his Memoranda after the first two cantos of his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published in 1812 and became sensationally popular.

You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.

Jared Leto

Gay, Rumor, Fame

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

Eva Herzigova

Thinking, Fame, Modeling

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Eminem

Bricks, Fame

Fame attracts lunatics.

Elton John

Fame, Lunatic

"Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Danielle Steel

Literature, Fame, Needed

"Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Charles Darwin

Humility, Men, Fame

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

William Rowan Hamilton

Math, Fame, Conqueror

Fame is a heavy burden.

Voltaire

Fame, Burden, Heavy

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Sidney Mohede

Villain, Fame, Persons

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

Ryan Tedder

Magic, Fame, Not Interested

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Artist, Long, Fame

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

Raymond Roussel

Fame

Raymond Roussel, John Ashbery (1991). “Selections from Certain of His Books”, Consortium Book Sales & Dist

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

Men, Practice, Fame

I, personally, liked the legend.

Marlene Dietrich

Legends, Fame

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

Marilyn Monroe

Meals, Caviar, Fame