Prize Quotes

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

— Steven Wright

Love is the prize in life.

— Boyd Holbrook

To love the game beyond the prize

— Henry Newbolt

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

I prize the privilege of being alone.

— Carl Rogers

Parts win prizes, not actors.

— Alan Rickman

“Give me prize, save your praise.”

— Toba Beta

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

— Anonymous

“It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.”

— Sol Yurick

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

— Omar N. Bradley

I'm a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I'll sell it out. I can do it, man.

— Royce Gracie

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers.

— Jerry Lawler

“Keep your heart in the game and your eyes on the prize.”

— Nathania Gutierrez

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

— John Milton

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Janet Maslin

I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

— Kristin Hannah

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

— John Lithgow

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy…

— Stephen Curry

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

— Orson Scott Card

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

— Brandon Sanderson

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen…

— Fritz Haber

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer,…

— Philip Neri

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist…

— Wole Soyinka

What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in…

— Peter Bradshaw

I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said,…

— Lauren Groff

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x,…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that…

— Fred Rogers

That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears…

— Sophy Burnham

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have…

— Diane Mott Davidson

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is…

— William Booth

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I…

— Robert Browning

I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I…

— Lilith Saintcrow

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start…

— Patricia Moyes

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they…

— Wayne Thomas Batson

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the…

— Toni Morrison

Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a…

— Denys Johnson-Davies