Fame Quotes - Page 24

• Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

  Sigmund Freud

  Writing, Wealth

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• Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Important, Young Writers

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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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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• 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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• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Men, Scotch

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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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• When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Grateful, Shame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.201, Vintage

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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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• I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I’ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Home, Years, People

  "Leonardo DiCaprio: 'wealth and success don't make you happy'". Interview with Chloe Fox, January 9, 2016.

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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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• Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Distance, People, Needs

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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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