Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel 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
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
“Excruciatingly, Obama’s fellow Nobel Laureates turned on him as well. More” — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won… — Carl Forti Copy Share Image
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“Work as if you'll earn a Nobel Prize. Give regardless of your wallet's size. Laugh until tears roll from your eyes. These… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what… — John Pople Copy Share Image
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that… — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
