For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal. — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
I'm a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I'll sell it out. I can do it, man. — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
