Prize Quotes · Page 48

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

— Brandon Sanderson

At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and…

— William Carlos Williams

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write…

— David Baldacci

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the…

— Peter Agre

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

— Mort Sahl

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a…

— Ishmael Reed

The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they…

— Wayne Thomas Batson

People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Parts win prizes, not actors.

— Alan Rickman

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

— W. C. Fields

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans…

— Mitch Hedberg

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Jay Leno

Work hard at work worth doing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most…

— Greg Smith

I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their…

— Barbara Hamby

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

— Kygo

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin…

— Jay Leno

Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That…

— Mara Liasson

What motivated me to sign with the PFL was precisely the grand prix format, which gives you this great prize. One million…

— Fabricio Werdum