Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth Copy Share Image
It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win… — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that money was a big factor in signing for Bare Knuckle - we're prize… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image