Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only… — Jimmy Carter 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
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
“In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have… — Christopher A. Sims Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
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![“Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1b/paul-laffoley-7077_around-the-corner_around-the-corner-of-the-carnegie-delica_1949100.jpg)
![“Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978]…” quote by Hershel Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/327/hershel-shanks-25800_biblical_awarded-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-1986-el_864515.jpg)
![“I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],” quote by Kristin Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f0/kristin-hannah-1106_boxes_i-m-an-insomniac-lately-it-s-one-of-the_2524892.jpg)
