Transient Glory Quotes

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

Anybody whose film becomes a hit is a superstar. Today there is somebody, and tomorrow there will be somebody else. No single woman or man has a monopoly for all time.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

A country soon tires of the glories it has wrought.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?