Prize Quotes · Page 6

“The ones who win usually don't need the prize.”

— Jake Colsen

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

— Steve Toltz

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

— Hendrik Tennekes

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

— Philip Warren Anderson

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

— John Muir

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

— Michael O'Leary

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

— Robert Browning

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

— Joseph Benavidez

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

— Rose McGowan

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

— Bill Gates

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

— Bill Walsh

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

— Abraham Cowley

I believe that when Fifa hands out an award, it should not be a marketing prize that solely honours the protagonists of…

— Philipp Lahm

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

— Homer

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through…

— Isaac Watts

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads…

— Alexander Pope

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA…

— Rick Strassman

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is…

— Dennis Rodman

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great,…

— John Virgo

I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect…

— Victor Banerjee

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only…

— Jimmy Carter

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…

— William Gibson

There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was…

— Rush Limbaugh

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me…

— Og Mandino

I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study…

— Gail Carriger

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.…

— Richard Dawkins

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.…

— Paul Laffoley

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing…

— Jack Steinberger

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes…

— Noam Chomsky

President Trump is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt.

— Katie Britt

In life, understanding is the booby prize.

— Werner Erhard

“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

— Edgar Lee Masters

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

— Aesop

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

— Avicii

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

— Anonymous

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.

— Pat Sajak