Nobel Quotes

221 quotes by 175 authors

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the… — Toni Morrison
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age — Kailash Satyarthi
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never… — Randy Schekman
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy.… — Gagan Narang
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of… — Ernest Hemingway
I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize. — Ron Paul
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to… — Richard Gere
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was… — Freeman Dyson
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. — Richard P. Feynman
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being… — Seamus Heaney
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart. — Aung San Suu Kyi
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. — Aung San Suu Kyi
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. — Joshua Lederberg
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. — Tom Lehrer
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. — Doris Lessing

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175 authors contributed a total of 221 Nobel Quotes, led by these top contributors: