"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Fame, Thinking

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Exlpore more Fame quotes

"The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind."

Dominique Wilkins, French Athlete

Fame, Mind

"Fame is proof that people are gullible."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Fame, Proof, People, Recognition

"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Fame, Legend, Meaning, Identity

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fame, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

"He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Fame, Television, Youth, Image

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Fame, Writer

"I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game."

Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban Athlete

Fame, Respect

"I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame."

Steve Brown, American Musician

Fame, Old

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Power

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Fame, Fashion, Present

Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

Society

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

Love

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

Authenticity

"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."

Life

7

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Fame quotes

"The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind."

"Fame is proof that people are gullible."

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

"He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game."

"I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame."

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."