It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer Copy Share Image
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things. — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world… — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for,… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
“was driving up S 25th St., this afternoon, and saw this saying on a sign: "Look at life through the windshield, not… — F. M. Proctor Copy Share Image
The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or… — Renee Lawless 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
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image