Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, “Sure, cancer sucks and I’m glad… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Whever we experience a pain or a loss... we usually bounce back. Sometimes even stronger. That's called "resiliency." Why can we do… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice -… — Steven Chu 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
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says… — Jacques Dubochet 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
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
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall… — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. — Doris Lessing 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
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Below is Pixar’s storytelling process overlayed on Malala’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech: Once there was a little girl who lived in a… — Carmine Gallo 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
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
