In high school, I won a prize for an essay on…

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Well, to start, for me, at seven years old, I was on a television contest called 'The Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club.' Each week…

— Leslie Uggams

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first…

— Ian Rankin

When I first heard that I had won the prize, I thought that it was something for myself, that it was something personal, recognition…

— Gao Xingjian

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it…

— Elizabeth Crook

“John looked down at me like the awards for most naïve girl in the world had already been handed out, and I'd won first…

— Meg Cabot

I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“Once upon a time, the white man's God, also known as One Who Wins You as a Prize, had beaten everyone and won everything.…

— John Holiday

My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.

— June Brown

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a…

— Victoria de los Angeles

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best…

— Amy Chua

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

— Josette Sheeran

I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.

— Thiago Silva

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and…

— Robert Koch

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

— Edward R. Murrow