James Russell Lowell Quotes

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.

I want to be remembered for my roles and films rather than my looks.

I don't want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.