I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise. — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
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