The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense:… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties… — Mildred Armstrong Kalish Copy Share Image
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or… — Renee Lawless Copy Share Image
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds… — Bobby Rahal Copy Share Image
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
![“[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.” quote by Sjon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c28/sjon-22692_accepting_bob-dylan-builds-his-lyrics-of-course-fr_224146.jpg)
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
![“I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ff/jim-jarmusch-3256_bob_i-think-we-need-to-sort-of-broaden-our-d_681950.jpg)
