No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one… — Stephen Hawking 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
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life. — James Cook Copy Share Image
If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I get tired of walking I just look up at the PRIZE, swallow my pain and Walk On. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville 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
Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good. — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring. — Teddy Sears 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
I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. — Audrey Hepburn 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
My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we… — June Brown Copy Share Image
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
They were doing concept pop before anyone else was, let me tell you that much. Where is Jedward's Mercury Prize? — CMAT Copy Share Image