My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
We want to go out and be a champion, and it adds for a lot of motivation when you know what that… — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. — Abraham Whipple Copy Share Image
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize. — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
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