Done Quote by 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

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

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

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— George Wald

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

— Piyush Goyal

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may…

— James Rothman

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

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

— Chanakya