We want to go out and be a champion, and it adds for a lot of motivation when you know what that… — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my… — Wolfgang Ketterle Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I get tired of walking I just look up at the PRIZE, swallow my pain and Walk On. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... "Keep your eyes on the prize," although I think he should have also said "Go after the prize," too; and maybe… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize… — Willie Geist 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
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe… — Henry Newbolt Copy Share Image
The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
What motivated me to sign with the PFL was precisely the grand prix format, which gives you this great prize. One million… — Fabricio Werdum Copy Share Image
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
