Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that… — Rory McIlroy
In life, understanding is the booby prize. — Werner Erhard
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be… — Heinz Fischer
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a… — Murong Xuecun
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless… — Alexander Pope
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news… — Lennart Nilsson
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought… — Guy Burgess
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an… — Ralph W. Moss
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it… — Peter Medawar
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival… — Graham Coxon
To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move… — Thomas Traherne
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It… — George Wald
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage… — H. Rider Haggard
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use… — Richard P. Feynman
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got… — Richard P. Feynman
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize… — Carol Kent
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go… — Rajneesh
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that… — John Dewey
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation,… — J M Coetzee
If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. — Sylvia Plath
No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks — Don Edward Beck

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