I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway. — James Corden Copy Share Image
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
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 understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. — Richard P. Feynman 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
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life. — James Cook Copy Share Image
