Prize Quotes · Page 16

When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong…

— Joshua Wong

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

— P. T. Barnum

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

— William Zinsser

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel…

— Ron Paul

In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

— Ian Rankin

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it…

— Terry Rossio

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

— Betty Dodson

I think they should continue the policy of not giving a Nobel Prize for paneling.

— Jack Handey

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but…

— Iain Duncan Smith

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is…

— Samuel Johnson

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change…

— Tony Benn

For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy…

— Bruce Beutler

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and…

— Paul Berg

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one…

— John Banville

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside…

— Teresa of Avila

I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in…

— Richard Branson

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Because of the amount of press attention, people went to see this dirty bed, as if it was a freak show. But…

— Tracey Emin

See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked…

— Ruby Dee

A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other…

— Melina Marchetta

It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following…

— Jan Gustafsson

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,…

— Bella Abzug

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him.

— Argus Hamilton

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of…

— David Mamet

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

— Lord Dunsany

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

— Joe Klein

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

— William J. Clinton

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

— Alexander Pope

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

— Christopher Marlowe

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly…

— Junot Diaz

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

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize…

— Tim Kennedy

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for…

— Tom Brokaw

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile…

— Kate Mosse