Loss of Prestige Quotes

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a comic.'

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

They will leave the King nothing other than the empty name of King, no more

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

The belief in American exceptionalism has vanished with the end of empire, the weakening of power, the loss of faith in America’s future.

When I cease to harmonize with the majority ... I feel that I ought no longer to hold that respectable position [Senate Commerce Committee chairman.]

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.