What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. “Oh Evelyn, look!… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and… — JR Copy Share Image
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book,… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for,… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world… — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
