George W. Bush Quotes

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

I would just like to be remembered.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

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

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

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

I want to be remembered.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It's not because I won't be there to enjoy it, exactly. It's because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

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

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.