fame

I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girls. I stop and think about my actions more. I tip great, I try not to swear too much, and I remember to thank people and be grateful. And all that stuff I do to "appear' better has actually made me a better person. I wish I had always acted like I was a little bit famous.

Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Tut, tut _ fame clearly isn't everything.

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him."So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled.

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch__erms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.