Notoriety Quotes

• Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Action, Disadvantages

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.279

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• As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Doctors, Sight

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• As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Stars, Film, Havens

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• Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Firsts, Limelight, First Lady

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• renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Littles, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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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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• Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

  Harry S. Truman

  Mistake, Men, Vices

  "Harry S. Truman in his own words".

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• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

  George William Curtis

  Appreciate, Noble, Deeds

  George William Curtis (1894). “From the Easy Chair”

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• Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

  Aesop

  Fame, Mistaken

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

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• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Loneliness, Fighting

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  People, Pieces, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Greatness, Confusion, Confusing

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• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Funny Inspirational, Wish, Common

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.12.

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• I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

  Diana Ross

  Responsibility, Thinking, Hands

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• The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

  Kenny G

  Real, Simple, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

  Billy Carter

  Apologizing, Deny, I Apologize

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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

  Bill Dixon

  Change, Rocks, Musician

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• You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

  Morgan Brittany

  Mind Your Own Business, Fame, Term

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• Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

  Robert Redford

  People, Agendas, Levels

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• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Publicity, Staff, Position

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Starting Over

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• It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Jobs, Want, Way

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Airplane, Sisterhood

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