Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it's probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

The world knew you before you knew the world.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

I feel like, even in this crazy world of Trump getting elected and these things that really kind of caught me off-guard, I feel like I understand less than I did.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

I can only imagine being the most famous person in the world, what that must be like when you go to the grocery store, when you go anywhere.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Make sure they remember you.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

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?"

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.