Prize Quotes · Page 40

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.

— Saul Bellow

I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND.…

— Shane Smith

The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we…

— Scott Jurek

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

— Barry Marshall

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

— Don Edward Beck

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

— Patrick Dixon

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the…

— Sherwood Schwartz

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,…

— Abraham Coles

When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait,…

— John Gay

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and…

— Edith Wharton

Sometimes when I get tired of walking I just look up at the PRIZE, swallow my pain and Walk On.

— Terry Mark

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives…

— John Hurt

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to…

— Eddie Van Halen

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

— Tracy Austin

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

— Charles Glover Barkla

In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal…

— Pope Francis

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices…

— Paul Kagame

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the…

— Sjon

Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition.

— Torrey Peters

There are no prizes for average performance.

— Brian Tracy

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Najib Razak

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

— William J. Clinton

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was…

— Joshua Lederberg

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer