The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~By Barack Obama ~
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
~By Sonny Bono ~
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.
~By Charles Inglis ~
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
~By Davy Crockett ~
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
~By Wade Boggs ~
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
~By Wade Boggs ~
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
~By Jessica Alba ~
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
~By Oliver Herford ~
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~By David Duchovny ~
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
~By Jim Otto ~
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
Fame is morally neutral.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
~By Clive James ~
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
~By Alexander Smith ~
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
~By William Davenant ~
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
~By Shawn Fanning ~
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
~By Kate Bosworth ~
You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
~By Omar Epps ~
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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.
~By Alan Shepard ~
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
~By Horace Greeley ~
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
~By Truman Capote ~
I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~By Brenda Lee ~
I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.
~By Phil Rizzuto ~
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
~By Nikki Cox ~
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
~By Lord Byron ~
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
~By Donatella Versace ~
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
~By Bayard Taylor ~
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
~By Mary MacLane ~
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
~By Cate Blanchett ~
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
~By Ismail Merchant ~
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
~By Scott Patterson ~
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
~By Roger McGuinn ~
People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
~By Tom Petty ~
Fame doesn't end loneliness.
~By Claire Danes ~
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
~By Chris Brown ~
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
~By Richie Ashburn ~
I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
~By Ryan Seacrest ~
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
~By Robert Burns ~
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
~By Lord Byron ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
~By Sharon Stone ~
The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~
When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
~By Tiger Woods ~
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
~By Chanakya ~
Acquaintance lessens fame.
~By Claudius ~
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
~By David Cassidy ~
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
~By Mary Austin ~
I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
~By Doris Lessing ~
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
~By William De Morgan ~
It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.
~By Emmitt Smith ~
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
~By John Corbett ~
It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
~By Edie Brickell ~
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
~By Adam Clarke ~
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
~By Edward Young ~
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
~By Fay Vincent ~
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
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