The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim 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
One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard 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
“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
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity... — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have. — Mikey Garcia Copy Share Image
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Don't stop, get it, get it! Last for hours, not for minutes. Open wide for my surprise, Scratch and blow for your… — Blood On The Dance Floor Copy Share Image