Quotes About Prestige

Harvard, entry to the clubs was by invitation only

we care about money not so much because of what it buys as because of where it ranks us among our peers.

This is what constitutes an "heroic age": that a people subsisting stably on pasture and tillage, with a simple system of customary law and an already established social hierarchy, is provided with an opportunity to prey on a rich, highly organized and prestigious civilization.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Necesito una pequeña buhardilla para dedicarme a escribir y soñar, no un coche impecable que me de prestigio y status entre los pendejos de clase media.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

The average American has the feeling that work..is the only dignified way of life...While theoretically, economic activities are supposed to be the means to the good life, as a matter of fact it is not the end, but the means themselves, that have the greater prestige.

scientists rush to publish in order to gain the benefits associated with being the first to have made a particular advancement.

Manchester University was an odd choice, though—posh kids that fail to reach Oxbridge generally go to Bristol, Edinburgh or, for the true walk of shame, Exeter.

He was highly respected in Europe and around the world.

did not at first appreciate how academically disadvantaged I was—especially compared with classmates from elite prep schools like Andover and Exeter and top-flight public schools like Bronx Science.

I set my sights on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose PhD program in economics was widely viewed as the best in the world.

Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

Without being disrespectful to Leverkusen, playing for Liverpool helps me more because I am playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I have no regrets making this step.

I know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result of being snubbed. But self-publishing really appeals to me.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.