Fame Quotes · Page 124

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

— Robert A. Burton

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

— Livy

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you…

— Pierce Brosnan

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how…

— Benjamin Zander

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't…

— David McCullough

Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind."…

— Chuck D

If anyone really thinks that I've ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I'm terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I'm clamouring…

— Lucy DeCoutere

The camera, I hate it. That's something I need to endure while working as an actor. In the end, because of fame,…

— Gong Yoo

I am not obsessed with social media fame, but I do think that it's a great tool by which I can stay…

— Atif Aslam

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life…

— Clarence Clemons

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Jared Leto

You have to retire before you can make the Hall of Fame.

— Joe Garagiola

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known…

— Horace Walpole

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check…

— Jonathan Swift

God gave me everything - money, fame and love of people, more than what I feel I deserve.

— Jeetendra

[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only…

— Janet Leigh

Fame just didn't fit in with my life.

— Helen Baxendale

There's no problem with trying to be successful, but it's all about just doing good work. It's not about fame.

— Brian Gleeson

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.…

— Lewis Carroll

Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life…

— William J. Mann

For me, hard work and determination got me in the Hall of Fame.

— Riddick Bowe

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint…

— Lyndon B. Johnson