Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich would be dancing on the streets. But only poor kids do that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me.… — David Essex Copy Share Image
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The problem we are giving sick people wrong attention. We should be giving them help instead of giving them attention. That is… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The difference between me and everyone else who's famous it's that they were trying to go get famous, for the most part.… — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I remember being in Vietnam in my early 20s, at the height of Lonely Planet's fame, and all the travellers would converge… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I love fame. I love being written about. I don't really mind if people think I'm a bad writer, if they don't… — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around… — Alex Roe Copy Share Image
Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Is the Pro Football Hall of Fame important to players to feel they belong? Of course it is. It's the pinnacle but… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
