fame

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

10 quotes from Robert Benchley

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

2 more quotes from Jesse Owens

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

6 quotes from Leigh Hunt

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

6 more quotes from Lillie Langtry

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

2 wisdom & wit from Lefty Gomez

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

52 more thoughts from Albert Camus

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

23 quotes from Walt Disney

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

7 views from Jose Marti

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

29 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

5 sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

2 other quotes from Nat King Cole

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

9 other sayings from Lawrence Welk

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

6 views from Duke Ellington

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

9 wisdom & wit from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

15 wisdom & wit from Orson Welles

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

8 more sayings from Paul Lynde

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

7 thoughts from Lillian Hellman

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

53 sayings from Marilyn Monroe

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw

I'm famous. That's my job.

3 sayings from Jerry Rubin

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

18 more quotes from Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

18 views from Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

18 other sayings from Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

18 sayings from Andy Warhol