Prize Quotes · Page 2

I don't value prizes of any sort.

— David Hockney

Work hard at work worth doing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Look at what you could have won.

— Jim Bowen

Parts win prizes, not actors.

— Alan Rickman

I prize the privilege of being alone.

— Carl Rogers

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

To love the game beyond the prize

— Henry Newbolt

Love is the prize in life.

— Boyd Holbrook

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

— Jake Colsen

There are no prizes for average performance.

— Brian Tracy

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

— Michael O'Leary

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

— Katharine Hepburn

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

— H. L. Mencken

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

— Hendrik Tennekes

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

— John Muir

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

— Audrey Hepburn

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

— Marcel Proust

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

— Teddy Sears

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do…

— Aaron Klug

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes when I get tired of walking I just look up at the PRIZE, swallow my pain and Walk On.

— Terry Mark

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

— John Banville

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

— Ree Drummond

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then…

— Hal Sparks

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his…

— J. M. Coetzee

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of…

— Tim Burton

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of…

— Jeanette Winterson

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the…

— Neil Gaiman

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me…

— Murray Gell-Mann

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold…

— David Bennun

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy…

— Ernest Cline

I talked about the summer of 1985, when I worked at an amusement park on Long Island, the kind of place where…

— Greg Mottola

Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information,…

— Pico Iyer

We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize.…

— Steven Biko

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

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than…

— Rod Liddle

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

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not…

— William Booth

I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who…

— Masha Gessen