The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
“Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing” — James Wood Copy Share Image
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong, — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
“Work as if you'll earn a Nobel Prize. Give regardless of your wallet's size. Laugh until tears roll from your eyes. These… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what… — John Pople Copy Share Image
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. — John Bardeen Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel prize but the other gets robbed by a… — Samuel Halpern Copy Share Image
“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
The first woman who decided that tights are pants should get the Nobel Peace Prize. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by… — Charles Fleischer Copy Share Image