Prize Quotes
710 quotes by 601 authors
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
— Joan Baez
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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
— John Banville
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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with…
— John Banville
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I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
— Mario Batali
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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
— Glenn Beck
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
— John Bolton
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
— Christina Aguilera
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
— A. S. Byatt
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I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money.…
— Drew Carey
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The…
— Billy Childish
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We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station…
— Tommy Chong
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around…
— Amy Chua
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Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you…
— Jennifer Aniston
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles…
— Laozi
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Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do.…
— Metta World Peace
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If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to…
— Ava Helen Pauling
Who Wrote These Prize Quotes
601 authors contributed a total of 710 Prize Quotes, led by these top contributors: