#fame

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. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#inspiration #inspirational

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. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living #popularity

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

— Jessica Alba

#am #around #bad #because #fame

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. ↗

— Debby Boone

#fact #fame #hall #i #one-hit

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#attention-seekers #drugs #fame #money #money

Acquaintance lessens fame. ↗

— Claudius

#fame #lessens

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning. ↗

— Jimmy Cliff

#clap #done #fame #hall #hands

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#come #done #fame #famous #got

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#anyone #fame #famous #fill #i