Quotes about fame

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Three quarters of respectable England hates you.""Half," Sebastian replied with a smile. "It's really only half. Judging by my correspondence, it may be as little as forty-eight percent. And of those, only a small number want to cause me bodily harm. The rest just wish to have me gagged or thrown in prison.

i have taken life as its came to me first time i wanted to go to life .

What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not. I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness. When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and

Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind, Leaving on earth no more memorialThan foam in water or smoke upon the wind

The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself to notice all those hands that have made your growth possible, you will also recognize what you have made possible for countless others — and how famous you already are. In this very moment, one of those others may be telling a story about how you helped them grow forward.

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would sp

Many writers were better before they became famous.

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

Being a famous writer is great. But there is a limit for it. For what extend can you be famous, and what would you achieve? True, your books will be best sellers, your blog writings and tweets will be hits, fans will love you, and what next? We all die to reach ‘there’ as budding writers, but once we reach ‘it’, we think, what next? Is this what we wanted all our lives? To grab all the leading awards, write best sellers, to be loved, to be known and heard? Will they help us achieve inner peace?

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. — I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.

America takes her writers too seriously.

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented in Miss White a useful agent of celebrity, and he has come solely to harness her to the cause of his glory. It is himself that he courts by means of the salaams he offers to her; he only ever flirts with himself. He is the Narcissus of the inkpot...

A kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better than any other generation..A great man is like a mountain, you cannot appreciate when standing at its base.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

That sovereign of insufferables.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

To be somebody you must last.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

To many fame comes too late.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74 it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I'm less amazed with your success and more with how you remain unaffected by what it brings with it.

The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom

The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?