Prize Quotes · Page 4

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

— John Banville

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

— Jonathan Raymond

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

— John Barbour

I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

— Kygo

“As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.”

— Julia Quinn

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

— Chris Claremont

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

— Jean Tirole

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

— Wendy Williams

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

— David Nicholls

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

— Sylvia Plath

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…

— Parker J. Palmer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

— Tom Lehrer

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So…

— Slim Whitman

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change…

— Tony Benn

For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be…

— Benjamin Franklin

I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the…

— Tom Robbins

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I…

— Abbi Glines

Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself --…

— Vivian Gornick

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something…

— Brad Renfro

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the…

— Ernie Chambers

Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a…

— Nilo Cruz

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white…

— Kathryn Stockett

Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that…

— Jaclyn Friedman

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering…

— Colin Powell

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

— Oswald Chambers

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

— Henry Mitchell

You have to pay the price for the prize.

— Robert D Dangoor

The real prize is finding something new out there.

— Vera Rubin

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

— William Shakespeare

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

— John Lewis