Honore de Balzac Quotes

I wanted to go somewhere I could be an important player. Be the player the whole city looks up to.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

The context of history proved invaluable.

A monument should be singular. Fate and happenstance have endowed this democracy with a constellation of remarkably varied and aesthetically impressive representations of our national adventure, and this endowment should be enlarged with care.

Obviously the bigger you are, the more attention you get.

History matters.

I just wanna be relevant.

I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

I want to be important.

In any situation, location is crucial.

Small things become small folks.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

Every single line means something.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

A name means a lot just by itself.