Being Quote by Angus Deaton

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have…

— Jack W. Szostak

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

— Doris Lessing

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like…

— Stanislaw Lem

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

— Doris Lessing

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

— Aaron Klug

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

“Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs.…

— Kendal Rob

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…

— Doris Lessing

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman