Quotes About Prestige

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

I haven't heard a single negative thing. Everyone has glowing reviews. A lot of people have told me, 'If you can play for the Dodgers, you should. First class.'

If I'm not driving a Ferrari or a Lambo, I'm not gonna talk about it in my raps.

It's amazing knowing that a club like Manchester United is interested in you. It's a good feeling.

It is always good to be linked with big clubs like Juventus. It is a sign that I am in a good way.

Any club that wins the European Cup gives it more credence.

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it!

I'm in love with low-rated shows. That's true of 'Men of a Certain Age,' 'Thief,' 'Gideon's Crossing.' I fall in love with projects that are almost freighted with prestige.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

Duveen was not selling merely low upkeep, social distinction, and watermarks; he was selling immortality.

You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece – that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece – that wants doing!

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

We have said that an employee may join a company because of its prestige and reputation, but that his relationship with his immediate manager determines how long he stays and how productive he is while he is there.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.