Fame Quotes - Page 21

• You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

  Marilyn Horne

  Stars, Work, Careers

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• A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

  Names, Discovery, Succeed

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• Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.

  Alice Stewart

  Country, Science, Should Have

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• It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jail Time, Murder, Obvious

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Simple

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• Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Life, Crush, Religious

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• Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

  Madeline Miller

  Memories, Men, Hands

  Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Sorry, Boys, Doors

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• I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe some movie stars who have their big speeches that they do that ends their long career in a roast. You're entire career in the WWE kind of like one big roast, but this is the moment where you get to soak it in and just see what's going on for a minute.

  Amy Dumas

  Stars, Wrestling, Wwe

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• When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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• We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

  Amy Dumas

  Girl, Lockers, Rooms

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• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

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• When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  Book, Night, Thinking

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Adulation

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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

  William Rowan Hamilton

  Math, Conqueror, Mathematics

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• Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Tongue, Appearance

  William Wilkie Collins (1871). “The woman in white”, p.198

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• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Jamie glanced at her notes. "So let's be honest, Jacks, can we? What is the best part of being an Angel? Is it the lifestyle? Is it the parties? The fame? What's your favourite part?" "Just having this chance," he said after considering. "And what chance is that?" Jamie asked. Jacks's blue eyes twinkled. "The chance to be a hero.

  Scott Speer

  Party, Hero, Eye

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• Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Names, Peaceful

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• When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

  Glenn Beck

  Drinking, Broken Inside, People

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Form, Misunderstanding

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• Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Obscurity, Notoriety

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