You Can’t Choose What You’re Famous For In Life.
- Dave Kellett
Glory Is Like A Circle In The Water, Which Never Ceaseth To Enlarge Itself, Till By Broad Spreading It Disperses To Naught.
- William Shakespeare
The Voracious Ambition Of Humans Is Never Sated By Dreams Coming True, Because There Is Always The Thought That Everything Might Be Done Better And Again.
- Unknown
Glory Is Fleeting, But Obscurity Is Forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I Could Not Conceive That [Fans] Actually Wanted Me To Sign Something. It Took A Long Time For Me To Figure Out (A) Just Say ‘Thank You’ And Sign The Thing, And (B) Smile In The Picture, Because If You Try To Just Half-Smile You’re Going To Look Constipated.
- Joss Whedon
The Glory Of Great Men Should Always Be Measured By The Means They Have Used To Acquire It.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To Have Had Fame, Even Very Minor Fame, And To Have Lost It, Got Older And Maybe Put On A Little Weight Is A Kind Of Living Death.
- David Nicholls
The Future Will Erase Everything; There’s No Level Of Fame Or Genius That Allows You To Transcend Oblivion. The Infinite Future Makes That Kind Of Mattering Impossible.
He Who Pursues Fame At The Risk Of Losing His Self Is Not A Scholar.
- Chuang-tzu
Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.
- Egyptian
Popularity? It Is Glory’s Small Change.
- Victor Hugo
Famous I Don’t Know About. It’s Hard To Be Famous And Alive. I Just Want To Play Music Every Day And Hear Someone Say, ‘Thanks, That Was Great, Here’s Some Money, Same Time Tomorrow, Okay?’
- Terry Pratchett
If You’re Holding Out For Universal Popularity, I’m Afraid You Will Be In This Cabin For A Very Long Time.
- J. K. Rowling
If You’re A Misfit Within A Group Of Misfits, Does That Mean You’re Actually Popular And Normal?
- Laura Preble
Never Suffer Youth To Be An Excuse For Inadequacy, Nor Age And Fame To Be An Excuse For Indolence.
- Benjamin Haydon
I’m A Bit Of An Abstract Figure That People Can Project Their Fantasies On; It’s Pretty Much What We All Are, Otherwise We Wouldn’t Be Stars, And People Wouldn’t Be Interested. But People Project Things On You That Have Nothing To Do With What You Really Are, Or They See A Little Something And Then Exaggerate It. And You Can’t Really Control That.
- Salma Hayek
How You Matter Is Defined By The Things That Matter To You. You Matter As Much As The Things That Matter To You Do.
It’s Going To Come True Like You Knew It, But It’s Not Going To Feel Like You Think.
- Rosie O'Donnell
We Are Like A Bunch Of Dogs Squirting On Fire Hydrants. We Poison The Groundwater With Our Toxic Piss, Marking Everything Mine In A Ridiculous Attempt To Survive Our Deaths.
I Think The Promise Of Fame And What It Holds To You As A Child And Dreaming Of It Is Not What It Is. What It Is, I’m Not Complaining About, But It’s Just Different Than The Reality You Dreamed.
Rather Than Love, Than Money, Than Fame, Give Me Truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
- Japanese
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