Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“Matt pointed to a prize without his eyes ever leaving mine. “I’ll take that one.” — Peggy Martinez Copy Share Image
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors]. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have… — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer,… — Philip Neri 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
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back. — Erin Andrews Copy Share Image
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
“someday you're going to win the Nobel Prize for Being Incredibly Pedantic, and I'm going to be so proud of you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
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