We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I used to be the chief guest in all the prize distribution ceremonies of shooting competitions. I tried my hand on a… — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I talked about the summer of 1985, when I worked at an amusement park on Long Island, the kind of place where… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have… — William Wetmore Story Copy Share Image
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
