Book Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would…

— Peter Higgs

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

— Angus Deaton

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have…

— Jack W. Szostak

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like…

— Stanislaw Lem

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients,…

— Anonymous

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere.…

— George Wald

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

— Doris Lessing

The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.

— Richard Thaler

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

— T. S. Eliot