The Famous Quotes of The Month
You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
— Gary Hart
To see one’s name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
— Gustave Flaubert
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
— Elbert Hubbard
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
— Mark Twain
We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now.
— John Lennon
My face is my passport.
— Vladimir Horowitz
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
—Robert Benchley
. . . be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— William Shakespeare
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin
You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
— Mel Brooks
A man’s great fame must always be measured against the means used to acquire it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
— Dorothy Parker (attrib.)
In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
— Andy Warhol
I’m famous. That’s my job.
— Jerry Rubin
Ah just love bein’ famous, and ah think anybody who says they don’t is full of s***.
— Johnny Winter
I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.
— Debbie Harry
The only man who wasn’t spoiled by being lionized was Daniel.
— Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
— Edgar Watson Howe
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
— Albert Einstein
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
— Robert Heinlein
There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
— Oscar Wilde
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his ass.
— General Joseph Stillwell
My God, who do they think I am - everybody?
— Leonard Bernstein, at the end of an exceptionally busy day
