Famous Quotes

"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."

Tom Wolfe on Famous

More quotes about Famous

• "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

  Andy Warhol on Famous

• "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

  Walt Disney on Famous

• "What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

  Voltaire on Famous

• "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous

• "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

  Ambrose Bierce on Famous

More quotes by Tom Wolfe

• "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."

• "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."

• "This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave."

• "There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit."

• "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."