Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were… — Tim Burton
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near,… — Walt Whitman
What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and… — Dan Chaon
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you… — Stanley Kunitz
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy,… — William Jennings Bryan
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. — Steven Wright
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare
I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance… — Keri Hulme
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre — Robert Hughes
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they… — Bryce Courtenay
[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the… — Thomas Watson
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting… — Neil Gaiman
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your… — Lois McMaster Bujold
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be… — Fred Rogers
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. — Markus Zusak
Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything… — Haruki Murakami
What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a… — Sarah Dessen
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing — John Muir
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a… — Twyla Tharp
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me… — Orson Scott Card

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