Prizes Quotes
155 Prizes quotes by 140 unique authors
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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
— Georges Duhamel
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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
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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
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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
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
— Katharine Hepburn
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I don't value prizes of any sort.
— David Hockney
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
— Annie Lennox
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I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
— Doris Lessing
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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
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
— Alan Rickman
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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
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Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
— Herbert Simon
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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
— Arabella Weir
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
— Steven Wright
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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
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
— Don DeLillo
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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
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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
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Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
— John Muir
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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
Who Wrote These Prizes Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 155 Prizes Quotes, led by these top contributors: