Quotes About Prestige

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

I feel completely contented at Bayern - one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Got to go to the ESPYs, which was so cool.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

Just the aura of being a Dallas Cowboy, you can't beat it.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

I love taking advantage of red carpets.

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

Let the circle of celebrity be unbroken. Amen.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

While any Fair Witness would do, the prestige of Cavendish was such that a lawyer was hardly necessary—the old gentleman had testified many times before the High Court and it was said that the wills locked up in his head represented billions. Cavendish had received his training in total recall from the great Dr. Samuel Renshaw and his hypnotic instruction as a fellow of the Rhine Foundation.

The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path—any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.

Wenn er groß war, wollte er Streichholzmacher werden. Das war so schön gefährlich, an seinen Fingern könnte Schwefel hängenbleiben, so daß niemand ihm die Hand zu geben wagte. Er würde bei seinen Kameraden großen Respekt genießen wegen seines unheimlichen Handwerks.

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.