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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
View quotes by Emily Dickinson

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
View quotes by Johnny Depp

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

"Since 'Pop Idol', I've taken out some lovely lasses, but whether they are interested in me or my brief interlude with fame, I'm not sure."
View quotes by Rik Waller

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
View quotes by Emily Dickinson

The light of his glorious fame still reaches out to me, falls upon me, and warms me.
View quotes by Julia Grant

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
View quotes by Tacitus

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
View quotes by M G Siriam

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon
View quotes by James Howell

Fame will never affect me like that. I'll always be the same person, because when I see myself changing, I'll quit acting. I never want to be somebody else.
View quotes by Jeremy London

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
View quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross]
View quotes by Johnny Mathis

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

When you play a sport, you have two things in mind. One is to get into the Hall of Fame and the other is to go to heaven when you die.
View quotes by Lee Trevino

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
View quotes by Alex Parks

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
View quotes by Benedict Spinoza

I never thought I'd see that kind of fame again. [on playing Steve Owen in Eastenders]
View quotes by Martin Kemp

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