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Quotes About Honorary

The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it. Wow! How big is the lock? Jonah laughed. There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed.
~ Gordon Korman
Before the unknown Jewish martyr, incline your head in piety and respect for all the martyrs. Incline your thoughts to accompany them along their path of sorrow. They will lead you to the highest pinnacle of justice and truth. "A quote from Justin Godart, Minister of Health and Honorary President of the Committee for the Unknown Jewish Martyr
~ Steve Berry
Doctor, as in "an apple a day"? Or one of those guys who's got an honorary title for staying in college too long?
~ Jordan Castillo Price
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.
~ Haruki Murakami
Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
~ Waite Hoyt
Mel Gibson saved a lot of lives. All those sideways shooters, they couldn't hit shit. We ought to make him like an honorary cop or something.
~ Michael Connelly
There was an immediate connection with the Bay Area from when I first came out years ago. Somehow, I always knew there would be. They embraced me as a sort of honorary San Franciscan for some reason.
~ Bonobo
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
~ Jack L. Chalker
Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
An anonymous informant stated to Barbara Honegger that George Bush was elected an honorary (i.e. non-Italian) member of the Italian Masonic (and CIA and Mafia and Vatican-supported) cabal Propaganda Due ("P2") in 1976. His induction coincided with his appointment as director of the CIA.
~ Kenn Thomas
Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.
~ Asif Kapadia
I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.
~ Roland Orzabal
JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.
~ Charlene Tilton
I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.
~ Sofia Vassilieva
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
~ Myron Scholes
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
~ Dolly Parton
Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
~ Kitty Kelley
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
When I came to California, the first four parts I did were Stanford students. I think I should get an honorary degree from them.
~ Nicholas Hammond
China wants to be China and accepted as such—not as an honorary member of the West.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.
~ Brian Blessed
A crack shot and a great equestrian to boot, Saint-Georges had become an honorary member of the king's guard—allowed to take the title of "chevalier," essentially a knight—as a result of avenging a racist insult.
~ Tom Reiss
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed
~ Blixa Bargeld