I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“someday you're going to win the Nobel Prize for Being Incredibly Pedantic, and I'm going to be so proud of you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality;… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image