Quotes About Prestige

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

HRH Olivia Grace

Just because he played his stupid violin at Carnegie Hall when he was twelve does not make him hot.

There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.

My reputation precedes me now.

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.

People are dying to get a National Award... it's a national reputation.

There here has been some exceptional players to wear the No 9 shirt for Everton. For me to get that number, I knew what it meant and I knew what was required.

When I signed for Real Madrid, I knew it was a big club, but only when you're inside do you realise the magnitude of this team.

They had that air about them - five hundred years of breeding and a membership to White's.

Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.

It is a great feeling to be called an international composer in the true sense.

The adoption of other highly visible innovations like new cars and hair styles is especially likely to be status motivated.

It is what one really owns in the end, a name." -Istak

This was Oxford, after all

El prestigio es uno de los bienes más baratos y fáciles de comprar.

We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige... ...and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us... ...and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances.... We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

It was the eternal contest for reputation and prestige that encouraged Londoners to endow new hospitals or write great plays or crack the problem of longitude for the navy. No matter how agreeable your surroundings, you couldn't get famous by sitting around in some village, and that is still true today. You need people to acknowledge what you have done; you need a gallery for the applause; and above all you need to know what everyone else is up to.