Prize Quotes

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

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

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

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.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

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

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.