Prize Quotes · Page 7

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.

— Moon Jae-in

Set your eye on the prize & NEVER give up

— Maki De

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

— Saul Bellow

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

— Judith Rich Harris

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

— Lewis Schiff

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

— Jake LaMotta

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

— Sjon

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

— Andy Andrews

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste…

— Anonymous

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the…

— Donald Trump

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't…

— Ian Mcewan

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or…

— Tahir Shah

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that…

— James Rothman

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

— Ian Rankin

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

— Arthur Balfour

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't…

— Shelby Foote

According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked…

— Jay Leno

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope…

— Harold Evans

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been…

— Mark Wahlberg

I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm…

— Metta World Peace

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

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist…

— Rachel Joyce

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the…

— Toni Morrison

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start…

— Patricia Moyes

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I…

— Lilith Saintcrow

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I…

— Robert Browning

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured…

— Kevin Sessums

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

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;…

— Patrick Henry

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

— Saul Bellow

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

— William Shakespeare

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

— Don Edward Beck

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

— Emily Saliers

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

— Doris Lessing