Nobel Quotes
221 quotes by 175 authors
-
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
— Desmond Tutu
-
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
— John Steinbeck
-
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
— Steven Wright
-
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me…
— Orson Scott Card
-
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize…
— Matt Groening
-
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
— Iris Chang
-
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to…
— Darynda Jones
-
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your…
— Mother Teresa
-
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the…
— John Green
-
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology,…
— Robert Kuttner
-
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
— John F. Kennedy
-
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there…
— Myron Scholes
-
When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart…
— George Smoot
-
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
— Jane McGonigal
-
You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.
— Elie Wiesel
-
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the…
— Rudy Giuliani
-
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
— Wole Soyinka
-
Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
-
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be…
— James Rothman
-
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character…
— Glenn Greenwald
Who Wrote These Nobel Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 221 Nobel Quotes, led by these top contributors: