Prize Quotes · Page 21

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the…

— Donald Trump

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen…

— Fritz Haber

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin…

— Jay Leno

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

— Anne Bradstreet

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

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

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

— John Lithgow

“Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. “Oh Evelyn, look!…

— Fannie Flagg

Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they…

— James Thurber

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x…

— Richard Yates

What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be…

— Frankie Boyle

“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a…

— Rick Riordan

Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the…

— John Quincy Adams

Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next…

— Kevin Young

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was…

— Miles Teller

“I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would help us with our homework and dad…

— Kamand Kojouri

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…

— Joan Didion

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to…

— Eddie Van Halen

Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when…

— Gary D. Schmidt

One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner.…

— Clarence Page

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample…

— Antonin Dvorak

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…

— Isaac Asimov

I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace…

— Wangari Maathai

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

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

— Orson Scott Card

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

— Brandon Sanderson

Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great.

— Jim Harbaugh

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

— Barry Marshall

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

— Jon Porter

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

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

— Joan Baez

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

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

— Jean Tirole

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

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

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

— Stephen Hawking

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from…

— Vijay Seshadri