I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who… — Patrick Modiano 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
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business,… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's… — Jane McGonigal 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
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
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
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The… — Walt Whitman 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
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
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
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.' — Jocelyn Bell Burnell 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
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 world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. — Anonymous 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
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
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
![“The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back control if [Hillary] Clinton is in the White House and Vice President Tim Kaine held the tie-breaking vote.” quote by Mara Liasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8dd/mara-liasson-8465_bigs_the-senate-is-the-big-prize-until-recent_815886.jpg)
![“I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.” quote by Sylvia Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/698/sylvia-beach-69793_book_i-think-hemingway-s-book-titles-should-b_1428652.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)
![“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)
