Nobel Quotes · Page 3

“Mutlu olabilmek için her gün bir miktar edebiyatla ilgilenmem gerekiyor.”

— Orhan Pamuk

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center…

— Vincent Canby

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

— Desmond Tutu

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

— John Bolton

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother”

— E.Mavis Hetherington

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

— Kathy Lette

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...]…

— Steven Chu

To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil…

— Mairead Corrigan

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and…

— Severo Ochoa

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in…

— John Steinbeck

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate…

— Sun Myung Moon

Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn…

— Ben Dolnick

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything…

— Hershel Shanks

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of…

— Glenn Greenwald

If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository,…

— Joe Biden

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take…

— David Bennun

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured…

— Kevin Sessums

I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace…

— Wangari Maathai

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag…

— Desmond Tutu

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

— Michele Bachmann

“Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke.”

— Sophie Kinsella

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

— Irene Joliot-Curie

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a…

— Martin Firrell

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

— Frances Arnold

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

— Rigoberta Menchu

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on…

— Saul Perlmutter

“Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing”

— James Wood

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

— Joe Klein

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

— David Eddings