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
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. — Anonymous 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
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself --… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
It's the most important prize in WWE, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. You'll do anything and everything to keep it and to… — Sheamus Copy Share Image
I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He… — Joseph B. Wirthlin 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
Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon… — Alejandro Castro Espin 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
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
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness. — Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Copy Share Image
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image