This life is like a game, so you better play it right!

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

You can’t stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can’t give them 45 shots.

He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm

Sometimes I wish I weren’t famous.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I...

There is tremendous pressure today to be first. If you do something first, all the money and fame will come to you. All that is an obvious seduction for doing something like this.

David was “a star, the Elvis of the Bible.” An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift...

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for...

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west—there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.

I haven’t cried this much since I was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers...

When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die — that is what we march for!

[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;He may know the law of all things,...

She had probably referred to herself as Mrs. Scott Landon less than half a dozen times in all the years of her married life, and never once during the twenty-six months of her widowhood. It...

{The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral quoted here}Robert G. Ingersoll is dead. The brave soldier, the unswerving patriot, the true...

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

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.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You’d also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn’t.

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.

Light is life and always wins.

Your crown is in the place that has the least crowd

If I had a street named after me, it would really put me on the map.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his...

I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

The medium of response in America is fame; that’s how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

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...

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you’ve never seen before, and they’re at a great advantage.

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don’t believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just...

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like...

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in...

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn’t everything.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you’re obsolete.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who...