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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Van Morrison
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion
Mark Twain
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Marcus Valerius Martial
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Vladimir Nabokov
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Nicolas Caussin
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato The Elder
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
Marilyn Horne
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Edward George BulwerLytton
The way to fame goes thorough the palaces, the way to happiness does through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts.
Leo Tolstoy
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
