Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk… — Davante Adams Copy Share Image
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that money was a big factor in signing for Bare Knuckle - we're prize… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
![“To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.” quote by Randy Sandke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/14d/randy-sandke-78589_art_to-date-wynton-marsalis-has-received-a-t_2292387.jpg)
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