Books Quote by David Eddings

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it…

— David Bennun

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were…

— Chubby Checker

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

— Patrick Modiano

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself…

— David Bennun

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on…

— Juan Somavia

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be…

— Andy Partridge

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway