Prize Quotes · Page 26

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

— Martin Amis

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 don't really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I'd try this but…

— Limmy

When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals…

— Hassan Blasim

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

— Michele Bachmann

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do…

— Aaron Klug

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

— Bill Gates

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is…

— William Booth

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

— Abraham Cowley

It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me,…

— Pico Iyer

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it…

— Terry Rossio

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life,…

— Ellen G. White

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the…

— Tom Robbins

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

— Rose McGowan

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic…

— Max Perutz

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every…

— Anonymous

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from…

— Deborah Smith

Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.

— Anonymous

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

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

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

— Brigit of Kildare