Prize Quotes · Page 36

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

— Bethenny Frankel

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

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

— Katharine Hepburn

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would help us with our homework and dad…

— Kamand Kojouri

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people…

— Sophie Hannah

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three…

— Markus Zusak

I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves…

— John Lewis

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads…

— Philip Slater

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to…

— Renata Adler

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

— Katharine Hepburn

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,…

— Seamus Heaney

I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I…

— Stephen Dobyns

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He…

— Dante Alighieri

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

— Doris Lessing

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes…

— James Dobson

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

— Bruce Beutler

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

— Jane McGonigal

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

— William Shakespeare

Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that…

— Stephen Colbert

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the…

— Sylvia Plath

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

— Alexander Pope