Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will… — B. C. Forbes
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective. — Andre Agassi
My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour. — Goran Ivanisevic
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. — William Saroyan
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob… — Douglas Adams
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. — Billy Bob Thornton
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… — Raymond Chandler
It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all… — Unknown Author
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local… — Juan Somavia
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the… — Gene Tunney
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks. — W.C. Fields
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. — Philip Warren Anderson
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky… — David Bergen
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall… — Alfred Nobel
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it… — James McBride
Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having… — Matthew Henry
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by… — Unknown Author
Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. — Janet Frame
Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call — Saul Perlmutter
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be… — Saul Perlmutter
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be… — Confucius

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586 authors contributed a total of 710 Prize Quotes, led by these top contributors: