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Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin1943–1970On losing the Newsweek cover to Dwight D. Eisenhower after his death; New Musical Express (12 April 1969), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Comedy
You ride in a limousine the first time, it’s a big thrill but after that it’s just a stupid car.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
Michelle Pfeifferborn 1958Esquire (1990)
- Acting
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary … Fame and success are very different things, anyway.
Enyaborn 1961The Times Magazine interview (2005)
- Success
Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it’s OK if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
Josh Hommeborn 1973“Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink” The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
- Music
Fame is not creativity, it’s the industrial disease of creativity.
Mike Myersborn 1963From the introduction to his memoir Canada (2016)
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
Pericles494–429 BCPericles’ Funeral Oration (431 BC)
- Life & Death
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Talking
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
Voltaire1694–1778Candide (1759), Chapter XXVIn context
- Writing
The Boast of Heraldry, the Pomp of Pow’r,
And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’ inevitable Hour.
The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave.
Thomas Gray1716–1771Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)In context
- Life & Death
Then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
John Keats1795–1821When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (1818)In context
- Love
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I’m Nobody! Who are you? (1891)In context
What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What’s genuine, shall Posterity inherit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Prelude at the Theatre, spoken by PoetIn context
- Art
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I’m Nobody! Who are you? (1891)In context
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part II: The Country of the Saints, Chapter VIIIn context
- Truth & Lies