A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. - Igor Stravinsky

---

Related Authors
Anthony Burgess | Frédéric Chopin | Andy Biersack | Frédéric Chopin |

Related Quotes

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Gain Wisdom Lover Honor

---

History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.

Ruth Negga

Artist History Job Losers

---

A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Conscience Clear Softest World

---

Strength is any skill you can use to assert your will on Earth.

Reno Omokri

Strength Skill Assert Your will

---

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.

Vinnie Paz

Luck Skill Meet Opportunity

---

Na money when no dey make you feel say life hard

Erigga

Money Na Life hard

---

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Atomic Life Feel Warfare

---

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Michael Crichton

Abscence Proof

---

The best opportunity was yesterday, the next best one is today. Keep building

Changpeng Zhao

Best opportunity Building Today Yesterday

---

Be blind to be focused.

Cobhams Asuquo

Blind Focused Be

---

Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

Mike Tyson

Confidence Success Genius

---

Law 46: Never appear too perfect

Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)

Never Appear Too perfect

---

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. - Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) quotes