Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. — Saul Perlmutter
Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating… — Steven Pinker
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes
Parts win prizes, not actors. — Alan Rickman
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme… — John Ritter
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom,… — Arundhati Roy
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and… — Marco Rubio
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I… — Jose Saramago
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in… — Will Self
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when… — Rob Sheffield
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. — Herbert Simon
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved -… — Iain Duncan Smith
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother… — Sonia Sotomayor
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from… — Joseph Stiglitz
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
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. — Arabella Weir
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain,… — Ellen G. White
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart,… — Charlotte Bronte
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time… — Ann Patchett
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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