Prize Quotes · Page 14

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure…

— Constance Baker Motley

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

— Naguib Mahfouz

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

— Neil Peart

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

— Gore Vidal

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

— Billy Childish

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven…

— Catherine Camus

I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize,…

— Russell Simmons

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal…

— William McKinley

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to…

— Alexander Pope

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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 think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity…

— Emma Stone

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...]…

— Steven Chu

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women…

— Rachel Johnson

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a…

— Nilo Cruz

Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that…

— Jaclyn Friedman

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white…

— Kathryn Stockett

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the…

— Ernie Chambers

Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large…

— William Morley Punshon

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

— Roberta Flack

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified…

— Jose Saramago

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience…

— Os Guinness

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the…

— Portia de Rossi

People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.

— Mick Hucknall

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al…

— Tim Pawlenty

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

— Mikey Garcia

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to…

— Martin Schulz

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.”

— Angelica Hopes

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

— Michael Moorcock

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

— Bob Dylan

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

— Sallust

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

— Andre Agassi

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

— Gerald R. Ford