Quotes About Prestige

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.

Everyone wants to play at the top level - everyone wants to play in the biggest tournaments in the world - so, obviously, the Champions League is one.

Winning domestic tournaments like leagues, cups, and super cups adds to your standing in your country, but once you take a step forward in Europe and lift that European Cup, I think that prestige extends to the global stage.

I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

I drive a Lincoln Town Car.

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.

Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

reputation of power is power.

It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking the way they submit to forces they know are wrong and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their pres- tige, their power, their privileges so important that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

C'est un grand acte de sagesse à la fois et de pitié de la part du créateur, que de nous avoir interdit la connaissance de l'avenir, alors qu'il nous à octroyé les délices du souvenir et les prestiges de l'espérance.

However fond an undergraduate be of his womenfolk, at Oxford they keep him in a painful state of tension: at any moment they may somehow disgrace him.

But Oxford never pretended to be strong in mathematics.