Prize Quotes

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.

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

The prize of all too precious you.

Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.