It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be
happy. It's only necessary be rich
- Alan Alda
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
Roman Emperor
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of
Socrates, should be the delivery room for the
birth of ideas-a place where history comes to
life.
- Norman Cousins (1915-90)
American editor, writer, author
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and
excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first
science to state what common sense and the poets
have long known - that the essence of money is in
its absolute worthlessness.
- Norman O. Brown
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
- Rich Lewis
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring
up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and
they sigh for more, and lose better things in
struggling for them.
- Louisa May Alcott
US novelist
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes
him proud.
- W. H Auden
English-US poet, dramatist, editor
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice
cold and lonely as the North Pole.
- Vicki Baum
Austrian-US novelist
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows
now this way, and now that, and changes name as it
changes direction.
- Dante Alighieri
Italian poet
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of
course is a very common phenomenon.
- Albert Einstein
I studied the lives of great men and famous women,
and I found that the men and women who got to the
top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,
with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
- Henry Truman
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one. Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck
Many years ago I became involved with AzTeC Computing, the Arizona Free-Net.
I got electronic mail and started exploring what has now become the Internet.
People would write to me and ask whether I was the Bill Austin who was
a weatherman or the Bill Austin who owned "Bill Austin's BBQ.
Later they asked if I was the Bill Austin of The Beth and Bill Show on the radio
or Cooking With Beth and Bill on TV. From the beginning I always gave the same answer
... "No, I am the Famous Bill Austin."
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you
study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for
plastic glasses.
- Sally Jessy Raphael
I studied the lives of great men and famous women,
and I found that the men and women who got to the
top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,
with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
- Henry Truman