Quotes About Title

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

A title like 'the Lady,' for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.

Of course. MAN—an acronym." The mouth on the screen quirked with obscure humor. "Oh? What do the letters stand for?" "Multi-Appendaged-Numbskull, of course. Every creature who is worthy of the title of sapience knows that.

Excuse me? You're a lady? I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

Woody said, "No. His name is Kipp.

Woodrow Bookman, Woody

It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself.

We are athletes, and we work very hard in our way to the title.

Getting a win is nice but you have to have a dominant performance to make a run at that title, I believe.

I always dreamed of winning a world title - it's a dream come true.

I wasn't always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil - not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn't call me Virgil.

I thought 'Benson' was going to be more of an ensemble show. But it was called 'Benson' for a reason.

The moment that counts most for me is the moment that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist. At times it is the incipit of the book, the first sentences... In other words: if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

Il momento che più conta per me è quello che precede la lettura. Alle volte è il titolo che basta ad accendere in me il desiderio d'un libro che forse non esiste. Alle volte è l'incipit del libro, le prime frasi...Insomma: se a voi basta poco per mettere in moto l'immaginazione, a me basta ancor meno: la promessa della lettura.

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart."2

The second issue this picture raises is the idea of the patron – the painting has two titles: one describes the subject matter, the other refers to the family who commissioned it.

It is really a portrait of the family of King Philip IV of Spain, and it was only in a catalogue of the royal collection of pictures written in 1843 by Pedro de Madrazo that the title Las Meninas (which means 'The Ladies in Waiting') was given to the work.

I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.

Edge goes out every night, and not just on pay per views; every night, Edge goes out there with the intention of stealing the show. I know that he felt like his title run had not been given the respect from the company that it deserved, and he was really hell-bent on proving that he belonged as a main event guy.

Leadership is often misunderstood. When people hear that someone has an impressive title or an assigned leadership position, they assume that individual to be a leader. Sometimes that's true. But titles don't have much value when it comes to leading.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time—either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

El verdadero liderazgo no puede ser otorgado. Procede de la influencia, y ésta no puede imponerse, sino que debe ganarse. Lo único que un título puede comprar es un poco de tiempo, ya sea para aumentar su nivel de influencia sobre otros o para eliminarlo.