However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.
When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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.
Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
Robert Angier: No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears.
Nikola Tesla: Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier. What you want is simply expensive.
Gerald Root: You would drink, too, if you knew the world half as well as I do.
Ackerman: We'll have to dress it up a little. Disguise it. Give them enough reason to doubt it.
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of weapons.
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Alfred Borden: See, sacrifice, Robert. That's the price of a good trick. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
Olivia Wenscombe: He says that it's even between you. Robert Angier: Even? My wife for a few of his fingers?
Robert Angier: I never thought I'd find an answer at the bottom of a pint glass. Cutter: Hasn't stopped you looking, has it?
