The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. — Gabriela Sabatini Copy Share Image
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“This is the prize I want,” he said. “Let me spend tonight with your heart instead of your head.” — Brenda Rothert 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
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do -… — Judy Tenuta Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following… — Jan Gustafsson Copy Share Image
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one. — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. — Abraham Whipple Copy Share Image
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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