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
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared. — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked… — Robert Hofstadter 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
I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm… — Metta World Peace 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
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes. — Vanna White Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
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
