Before 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

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

— Gertrude B. Elion

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 gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when…

— Steven Chu

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

— Piyush Goyal

There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my…

— Barry Barish

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.'…

— Shuji Nakamura