278 quotes found
“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame...”
“Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the...”
“Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.”
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with ...”
“7,500, first-class, everythingand all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”
“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted...”
“It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious ...”
“A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.”
“And it hit me like a ton of bricks - that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there s a pair of usdont tell! They d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day T...”
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
“Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.”
“Everything have a foundation, even your fame; It started as little support from your family and immediate friends; Don't forget that because they saw the raw talent before everyone saw the polished...”
“It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.”
“To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confe...”
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
“The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
“I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love.”
“The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so th...”
