In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed. — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book,… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern 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 expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.” — Steven Magee 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
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone. — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen 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
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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