When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism… — John Cameron Copy Share Image
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
“There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world… — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for,… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the… — Fran Lebowitz 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
It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked… — Robert Hofstadter 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
Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“¿Qué clase de paseo va a ser éste si me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el… — Julio Cortázar 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