Prize Quotes

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

But few prize honour more than money.

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.