I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
Fame can amplify the message of art in a remarkable, meaningful way.
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.
Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.
Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.
When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.
Fame is morally neutral.
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
Mickey' is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder.
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.
