Prize Quotes

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

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

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.