Nobel Quotes
221 quotes by 175 authors
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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
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age
— Kailash Satyarthi
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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
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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
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I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.
— Jean Tirole
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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
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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
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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
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
— Henry Louis Gates
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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
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
— Marie Curie
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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
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
— Richard P. Feynman
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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
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The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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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
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I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
— Joshua Lederberg
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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
— Doris Lessing
Who Wrote These Nobel Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 221 Nobel Quotes, led by these top contributors: