Quotes about Fame
The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.
— Ernest Cline
I'm not an icon. Not even in America.
— John Mayer
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
— Albert Camus
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
— Bill Bailey
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
— JM Coetzee
I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.
— Lucille Ball
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!
— George Clooney
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
— Samuel Johnson
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
— John Piper
If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.
— Maya Angelou
Oh, that the church would fall on its face and cry out the words the prophet Habakkuk cried: "LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known" (3:2).
— Beth Moore
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.
— Billy Graham