Fame Quotes - Page 36

• I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

  Denrele Edun

  Want, Hypocritical, Saloons

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• Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

  Nicole Richie

  Block, Numbers, Calling

  Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

  Cato the Elder

  Stupidity, Height, Sometimes

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• Lighter is the wound foreseen.

  Cato the Elder

  Lighters, Foreseen, Wounds

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• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

  William Clark

  Selfish, Ambition, Boys

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• I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Well Known, Renown

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

  Edward Abbey

  Want, Rewards, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "White knuckle ride". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Wings

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

  Homer

  Heaven, Sound, Earth

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.384

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• You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

  Alan Shepard

  Believe, Book, Pages

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• I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

  Alanis Morissette

  Opposites

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Grateful, Men

  The Rambler, No 87, January 15, 1751.

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• But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

  Joan Rivers

  Party, Humor, Night

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• "I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, I Love Him, Knowing

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Women, Drawbacks

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• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  Aaron Carter

  Stuff, Interviews, Favorites Things

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• I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

  Alison Lohman

  Thinking, Ideas, Being Famous

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• People should realize we're jerks just like them.

  Edward de Bono

  People, Realizing, Jerk

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• People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

  Brian Johnson

  Good Luck, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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