Prize Quotes · Page 38

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I…

— Robert Browning

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

— Judith Rich Harris

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money…

— Maria Sharapova

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and…

— JR

Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm…

— Avicii

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that…

— Lord Byron

I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,…

— Jeanette Winterson

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't…

— Ian Mcewan

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

— Marcus Aurelius

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have…

— Diane Mott Davidson

It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following…

— Jan Gustafsson

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

— Frank Pittman

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the…

— Guglielmo Marconi

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason…

— Marianne Williamson

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

— Arthur Balfour

“A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting…

— Michele Bachmann

“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.”

— Angelica Hopes

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

— Anne Bradstreet

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

— Seth Godin

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus