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“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”

Country Home Form Joy Song Return Battle Fame Ears Brave Wave Warm Welcome Warrior Loud Boards Tides Peril Brows Afar Olives Laurels Wreaths

Book:Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

“In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.”

Art Enough America Film Form Century Fame Hollywood Profit Oscars Equations Academy Charlie Blur Motion Pictures Chaplin Honorary

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.”

World Giving May Form Animal Special Genius Fame Increase Tongue Noise Proportion Pursued Hounds Clamor Notoriety Quarry Aloofness

Book:Innocent

Source: Innocent

“Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.”

Ifs Thinking Art Wisdom Form Fame Forgery

Author:Phillip Adams

“Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.”

Art Form Spirit Artist Individual Pleasure Millions Our Lives Share Talent Sorrow Fame Architect Magnificent Richness Armstrong Great Talent

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.”

“What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.”

“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

Form Fame Highest Reputation Vanity

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.”

Form Worst Fame Incomprehension

Book:The Widow Ching--Pirate

Source: The Widow Ching--Pirate

“Fame is a form of misunderstanding.”

Form Fame Misunderstanding

Author:Madonna Ciccone