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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Chinese Proverb
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
Jean de la Bruyere
Fame is a constant effort
Jules Renard
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
God makes stars. I just produce them.
Samuel Goldwyn
Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
Samuel Johnson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson
Fame is proof that people are gullible
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
Philip Roth
England's genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
J.K. Rowling
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
Dorothy Parker, From a speech gi
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Pablo Picasso
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
John Milton
