Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking you'd get a… — Harry Caray
I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you… — Steve Jobs
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs… — Steven Pressfield
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole
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
I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery,… — Richard P. Feynman
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest;… — Euripides
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
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
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates
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
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. — Khalil Gibran
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream… — William Gibson
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer… — Al Gore
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that… — William Congreve
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of… — Junot Diaz
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. — Georges Duhamel
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
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. — William Feather
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. — Richard P. Feynman
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in… — Eddie Van Halen
Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes… — Michael Haneke
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. — Katharine Hepburn
I don't value prizes of any sort. — David Hockney

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