Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of natureand it wont hurt your feelingslike its happening to your clothing.”
—Marilyn Monroe (19261962)
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535475 B.C.)
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,a stone to a bone? Here lies,MHere lies;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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