I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
~ Alison Owen
I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.
~ Dylan Moran
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
~ John O'keefe
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
~ Oscar Wilde
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
~ Lynn Coady
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~ Brian Koslow
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.
~ Peter Thiel
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
~ Bill Murray
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
~ Kate Bush
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
~ Henry Kissinger
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
~ Publilius Syrus
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
~ Euripides
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~ Myrtle Reed
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~ Ben Jonson
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
~ Henri Matisse
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
~ Mencius
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
~ Stockwell Day
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~ Voltaire
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
~ Henry Anatole Grunwald
