I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot… — Helen Wills Moody Copy Share Image
“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master… — Anonymous Copy Share Image