Status Symbol Quotes:

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

- Mary Browne

topic: Status Symbol, Excuse, Poor

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

- Emilio Pucci

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Watches, May, Status Symbol

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Time, Powerful, Jazz Age, Great Literature

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

topic: Children, Differences, Roles, Status Symbol, Fabrication

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

- William Sansom

topic: Class, Want, Instruments, Status Symbol

By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

- Andrew Dice Clay

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Kids, Parent, Drug, Status Symbol, What Did I Do Wrong

It has now become a status symbol among the rich to say that you got ripped off by Bernie Madoff, because everybody is losing money in the market, everybody is, but it makes you special and unique if you lost money because of Madoff. These people don't think it makes 'em look stupid. It continues to elevate their status, they think.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Stupid, Unique, Thinking, Status Symbol, Losing Money

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

- George Harrison

source: Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

topic: People, Car, Fancy, Status Symbol, Prized Possessions

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

- Arne Jacobsen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Quality, Steel, Gone, Status Symbol

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

- John Mahoney

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, America, People, Status Symbol

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Book, Kids, Arms, Status Symbol

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

- Florence King

topic: Stress, Simple, Orchids, Status Symbol, High Strung

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

- Dave Ramsey

topic: Taken, Home, Bmw, Status Symbol, Paid Off

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.86, Open Road Media

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Status Symbol

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Marriage, Husband To Be, Inspirational Wedding

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

- Russell Baker

source: Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

topic: Crush, Baseball, Sleep, Insolent, Status Symbol

Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.

- Ricardo Nunes

topic: Nike, Strong, Technology, Status Symbol, Adidas

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

- Tommy Lee

topic: Animal, Thinking, Artist, Status Symbol, Hip Hop Artist

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

- Paul Getty

topic: Outstanding, Yacht, Symbols, Status Symbol

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

- Brené Brown

source: "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

topic: Moving, Judgement, Trying, Status Symbol

Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

- Elliott Abrams

topic: Mean, Winter, Years, Status Symbol, Cashmere

I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

- Stelios Haji-Ioannou

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Luxury, People, Doe, Private Jet, Status Symbol

I believe in status symbols.

- Brooks Stevens

topic: Believe, I Believe, I Believe In, Status Symbol

The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

- Hugh Nibley

topic: Religious, Jesus, Honesty, Status Symbol, Harlots

Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Religious, Hands, Two, Status Symbol

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

- Fletcher Knebel

topic: Horse, Giving Up, Years, Status Symbol

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

- Ingvar Kamprad

topic: Cutting, Simple, Impact, Status Symbol, Ikea

I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

- Alex Haley

topic: Book, College, Asking Questions, Status Symbol, Race In America