Quotes About Prestige

The loss of empire deprived Spain's over-large officer corps, which had been inherited from the continuous wars of the 19th century, of any meaningful external defensive role. In so doing, imperial defeat turned the military into a powerful internal political lobby determined to find a new role while guarding against any loss of income or prestige in the interim.

As an English production it does not rank high. It might get by at Princeton but certainly not at Harvard.

I've been taking lessons in Damehood from Judi Dench. Being a Dame is useful in restaurants, hotels, and restaurants, Judi says, but you have to get someone else to do the booking.

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

I love to play Pine Valley, and Shinnecock and National, which are two great ones that border one another.

The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

Four vital functions, as basic as the four elements: sexuality, sociality, ideation and glory. Or: pleasure, speech, thought and prestige. Being deprived of any of the four leads to stupor and death.

He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

It really is the very top of the fashion world; nothing comes above haute couture. But not any old designer can create something magical and call it haute couture; the term is strictly protected for a very special few.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

When I would play in big games at Ohio State, if the Goodyear Blimp was there, you knew it was a big-time game against a big-time opponent.

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.