Giving Quote by Doris Lessing

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…

— Doris Lessing

“I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think…

— Doris Lessing

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

— Angus Deaton

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

— Doris Lessing

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

— William Faulkner

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

— Gertrude B. Elion

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

— Piyush Goyal

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

— Saul Perlmutter

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so…

— Christopher A. Sims

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa