Quotes About Prestige

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month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.

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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

It's always an honor to play on Arthur Ashe stadium.

I don't want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.

I think if you're a footballer, you want to play in big stadiums like Old Trafford.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.