Nobel Quotes · Page 13

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

— Barry Marshall

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

— Charles Glover Barkla

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the…

— Sjon

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Najib Razak

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

— William J. Clinton

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

— Michael Pollan

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

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani…

— Colin Jost

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its…

— Anonymous

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind…

— Paul Conroy

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have…

— Walter E. Williams

My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a…

— Milton Friedman

Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports…

— Gagan Narang

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals…

— Nelson Mandela

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel…

— Jay Michaelson

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;…

— Richard Gere

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have…

— Lennart Nilsson

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to…

— Anonymous

There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon…

— Alejandro Castro Espin