Quotes About Prestige

But, come on, even the waiting list for that new Prada bag was only a year. No school can be more exclusive than a limited-edition Prada bag, surely?

Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.

The winner of the National or the All America has Champion written before his name from that day on, and never again may compete in open trials. He is a crowned king, whose sons and daughters are of the blood royal. He may not stoop to struggle with more common clay.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

It was a real party of swells.

And if Indifference fills him to overflowing, if he makes it into a reality as vast as the universe itself, it is because Indifference is the practical equivalent of doubt, and in his eyes does doubt not have the prestige of the Unconditioned?

If the French have loaded nostalgia with too much clarity, if they have deprived it of a certain intimate and dangerous prestige; Sehnsucht, on the other hand, exhausts what is insoluble in the conflicts of the German soul, torn between the Heimat and the Infinite.

In reverencing wealth we reverence not a man, but an appendix to a man.

The prestige of Western arts and science may assist the diffusion of Western morals, as it assists the diffusion of Western languages, or Western clothes.

Let's have no beating about the bush. Not every yahoo in a first-night seat is my peer.

prestige, and business, science and art not yet offering competing fields of endeavor, statecraft remained almost the only outlet for men of energy and purpose

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

It's humbling and an honor to be named AP Player of the Year, to be mentioned in the same realm as a lot of great players, a lot of hall of famers.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

There are many great players to have won the adidas Golden Ball Award, and it is a great privilege to receive this award and be part of this select group of players.

I am the first Tamil film artiste to receive the Padmashree.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

It's been a great advantage and a privilege to have the Tagore surname. Wherever you go, you are recognised.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.