Prizes Quotes

155 Prizes quotes by 140 unique authors

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
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
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. — Annie Lennox
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. — Doris Lessing
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit… — Abraham Lincoln
Parts win prizes, not actors. — Alan Rickman
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
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. — Herbert Simon
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. — Arabella Weir
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
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
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
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
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo
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
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
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing — John Muir
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all… — Joseph Heller

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