It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world… — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The heart is God's most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness. Now consider this -… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for,… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or… — Renee Lawless Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense:… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
![“[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.” quote by Sjon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c28/sjon-22692_accepting_bob-dylan-builds-his-lyrics-of-course-fr_224146.jpg)
