Arianna Huffington, born Arianna Stassinopoulos

Consumption, celebrity and the quest for perfection in this world are all subject to the law of diminishing returns: each successive acquisition and achievement will mean less than the one before. Diminishing returns are finally leading to diminished expectations about the promise of finding happiness without caring for our souls. Perhaps we are now ready to reject the hucksters of materialisms that have lured us down so many dead ends, and start again on the road that will lead us back to God.

Achievement | Character | Ends | God | Law | Perfection | Promise | Will | World | Happiness |

Orrin E. Klapp, fully Orrin Edgar Klapp

The celebrity cult celebrates the triumph of ordinariness – charm without character, showmanship without ability, bodies without minds, information without wisdom.

Ability | Character | Cult | Wisdom |

Daniel Boorstin, fully Daniel Joseph Boorstin

A sign of celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Worth |

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Attention | Capacity | Good | Men |

Meryl Streep, born Mary Louise Streep

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom

To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

Important | Murder | People | Public | Time | Murder | Think |

P. J. O'Rourke

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Means |

Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton

I’ve always had a passion to compete. Our story [Wal-Mart] proves that spirited competition is good for business.

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

Malice | Man | Power | Pride | Quiet |

Stephen Sondheim, fully Stephen Joshua Sondheim

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Ambition | Mother | Ambition |

Stephen Hawking

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Enough | World |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.