Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson fameficklefood Change image and share on social
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. Jean-Claude Van Damme cooldelusionfamous Change image and share on social
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage. Beyonce Knowles cutfamousleave Change image and share on social
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching. James Gleick algorithmattachcorpus share on social
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty. Dana Carvey famousnuttytheory Change image and share on social
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me. Haile Gebrselassie famouspeopletalk Change image and share on social
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box. Mickey Rourke boxfamoushollywood Change image and share on social
I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy. Caitlin Moran famousforfeithate Change image and share on social
I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet. Julie Warner celebrityfamoushave Change image and share on social
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism. Martin Filler accomplishmentarchitecturalastonish share on social