Art Buchwald Quotes

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

The test of greatness is the page of history.

My friends, they all say that I'm turning Hollywood. Big-time. And I want to be that. I want to be a guy who's bigger than what they say. You look at Kobe. Michael Jordan. Somebody like Michael Jackson. Those guys are bigger than life. I strive to be that.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

A great man is one sentence.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Either you make history or you will be history.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Your legacy makes a difference.

I'm part of history.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.