Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer Copy Share Image
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize. — Rodney Dangerfield 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
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
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
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
