Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

Wakati mwingine tukitaka kutambulika hatuna budi kuweka mbele aibu ya heshima yetu.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

If I had time, I would become timeless.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of all things and live the good life.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Barry has a history of being generous to the Hall of Fame. Though he hasn’t donated anything from home run No. 700, we have numerous artifacts already in Cooperstown from his career.

Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio’s arrival. By the All-Star break, the rookie had established himself as a wonderful player (.358, 10HR, 60 RBIs), fully...

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of...

Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

Don’t rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and...

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than...

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever...

I’m already crazy. I’m a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don’t think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my...

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Quando un uomo mangia tre pasti al giorno, diventa pericoloso. Per se stesso e per gli altri. Mangiare troppo rende nervosi. Pasti continui e digestioni faticose creano le guerre. Difficilmente i morti di fame combattono...

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you’ll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

One can’t work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one’s elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor’s/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn’t equal/what daylight did.

Royal Young’s writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price...

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with...

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by...

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it...

Fame is a very strange animal.

We’re talking about a guy who’s going into the Hall of Fame. He’s got great presence, and what he’s accomplished in the game is pretty remarkable, especially being a catcher. It’s amazing, everybody knows about...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his...

Fame is not the reason why brands are created and erected. Be diligent, focused and chain unceasing prayers to God who will continue giving you cheers.

Have the best course for all your actions.

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

Fame doesn’t end loneliness.