The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity... — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an'… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational structure of markets that turned into the work on signaling, which was… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image