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
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 barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is… — Sonia Sotomayor 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
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
As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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 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
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
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. — Abraham Whipple 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
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee 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
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
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
