A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical… — Haldan Keffer Hartline Copy Share Image
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and… — David Douglass Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
President Obama reacted to his Nobel Peace Prize win saying, 'I accept this award as a call to action.' That's great, but… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
![“People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of…” quote by Gertrude B. Elion](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf3/gertrude-b-elion-38568_aim_people-ask-me-often-whether-the-nobel-pr_3182419.jpg)
