Quotes About Prestige

The Ballon d'Or has never been something that I've missed.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.

I think just playing in the Champions League is a big motivation. When you hear the hymn or the song of the Champions League, it's a big motivation for every player.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

A well paid garbage man smells of success.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

We don't care about who you are, what you're interested in, and what you can become. We don't care about learning. We will love and respect you only if you go to Harvard.

from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige . . . it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.

Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

The Night's Watch is thousands of years old," he said, "but I'll wager Lord Snow's the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander's Tower.

Power and honour don't share the same bed,

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You've got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas.

think people like her—like Pandora and Young and Redford—are incredibly arrogant. They've got money, looks, a certain amount of power and prestige. It makes them feel above the law.