Quotes about Prize

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 5

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 4

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. Votes: 4

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. Votes: 4

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call Votes: 3

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! Votes: 3

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize]. Votes: 3

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. Votes: 3

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. Votes: 3

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. Votes: 3

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. Votes: 3

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. Votes: 3

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. Votes: 3

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. Votes: 3

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. Votes: 3

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. Votes: 3

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. Votes: 3

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. Votes: 3

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. Votes: 3

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. Votes: 3

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. Votes: 3

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize. Votes: 3

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. Votes: 3

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. Votes: 3

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. Votes: 3

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. Votes: 3

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong, Votes: 3

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. Votes: 3

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. Votes: 3

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. Votes: 3

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. Votes: 3

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything. Votes: 3

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. Votes: 3

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. Votes: 3

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion. Votes: 3

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. Votes: 3

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. Votes: 3

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. Votes: 3

The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country. Votes: 3

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. Votes: 3

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. Votes: 3

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. Votes: 3

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel Prize?""Why?" she asked, wrinkling her nose."For being outstanding in his field. Votes: 3

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. Votes: 3

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. Votes: 3

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. Votes: 3

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. Votes: 3

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. Votes: 3

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. Votes: 3

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Votes: 3

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" Votes: 3

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. Votes: 3

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. Votes: 3

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? Votes: 3

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. Votes: 3

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. Votes: 3

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. Votes: 3

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. Votes: 3

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. Votes: 3

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. Votes: 3

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. Votes: 3

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. Votes: 3

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities. Votes: 3

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book. Votes: 3

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. Votes: 3

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary. Votes: 3

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely. Votes: 3

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family. Votes: 3

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod. Votes: 3

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette. Votes: 3

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. Votes: 3

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday. Votes: 3

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore Votes: 3

Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today. Votes: 3

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice. Votes: 3

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true. Votes: 3

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, Rob Reiner really deserves one. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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". Votes: 3

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course. Votes: 3

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature? Votes: 3

Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be. Votes: 3

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it. Votes: 3

I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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'. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani teenager literally can change the world, while American teenagers literally can't even. Votes: 3

Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides. Votes: 3

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings. Votes: 3

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. Votes: 3

I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People." . Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics. Votes: 3

Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen. Votes: 3

[ 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. Votes: 3

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. Votes: 3

Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3

I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. Votes: 3

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. Votes: 3

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech. Votes: 3

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. Votes: 3

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time. Votes: 3

It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner? Votes: 3

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. Votes: 3

Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail. Votes: 3

In war there is no prize for runner-up. Votes: 2

Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back. Votes: 2

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize. Votes: 2

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. Votes: 2

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. Votes: 2

The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. Votes: 2

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Votes: 2

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. Votes: 2

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. Votes: 2

I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional prize fighter and let my fists do the talking only inside the ring. I don't want to comment on Chisora's psychological issues. Votes: 2

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff. Votes: 2

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Votes: 2

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. Votes: 2

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. Votes: 2

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. Votes: 1

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. Votes: 1

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. Votes: 1

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. Votes: 1

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. Votes: 1

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. Votes: 1

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. Votes: 1

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. Votes: 1

I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with. Votes: 1

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. Votes: 1

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. Votes: 1

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Votes: 1

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.' Votes: 1

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. Votes: 1

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. Votes: 1

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork. Votes: 0

The prize of all too precious you. Votes: 0

I prize the privilege of being alone. Votes: 0

Youth without beauty is half a prize. Votes: 0

But few prize honour more than money. Votes: 0

You can't praise what you don't prize. Votes: 0

In life, understanding is the booby prize. Votes: 0

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre Votes: 0

The prize is always worth the rocky ride. Votes: 0

In war there is no prize for runner-up. Votes: 0

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep. Votes: 0

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price. Votes: 0

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. Votes: 0

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize. Votes: 0

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize. Votes: 0

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. Votes: 0

We like the gift when we the giver prize. Votes: 0

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty. Votes: 0

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. Votes: 0

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. Votes: 0

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth. Votes: 0

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. Votes: 0

Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey. Votes: 0

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. Votes: 0

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. Votes: 0

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. Votes: 0

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. Votes: 0

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it. Votes: 0

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. Votes: 0

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. Votes: 0

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive Votes: 0

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners. Votes: 0

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. Votes: 0

Happiness is the inevitable prize of repeated positive interpretations of one's experiences. Votes: 0

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. Votes: 0

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. Votes: 0

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. Votes: 0

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks. Votes: 0

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. Votes: 0

This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest. Votes: 0

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes. Votes: 0

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. Votes: 0

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available. Votes: 0

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon. Votes: 0

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won. Votes: 0

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. Votes: 0

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! Votes: 0

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth. Votes: 0

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all. Votes: 0

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. Votes: 0

Its reward is in the doing,And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize" Votes: 0

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one. Votes: 0

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life. Votes: 0

You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Votes: 0

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize. Votes: 0

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize. Votes: 0

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back. Votes: 0

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess. Votes: 0

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned. Votes: 0

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. Votes: 0

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared. Votes: 0

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. Votes: 0

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. Votes: 0

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize. Votes: 0

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. Votes: 0

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people. Votes: 0

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour. Votes: 0

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me? Votes: 0

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness Votes: 0

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. Votes: 0

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. Votes: 0

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. Votes: 0

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all! Votes: 0

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven. Votes: 0

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either. Votes: 0

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online. Votes: 0

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. Votes: 0

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances. Votes: 0

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. Votes: 0

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! Votes: 0

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Votes: 0

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things. Votes: 0

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. Votes: 0

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. Votes: 0

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. Votes: 0

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize. Votes: 0

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. Votes: 0

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. Votes: 0

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. Votes: 0

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. Votes: 0

Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize! Votes: 0

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. Votes: 0

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. Votes: 0

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. Votes: 0

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. Votes: 0

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud Votes: 0

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Votes: 0

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. Votes: 0

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. Votes: 0

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in. Votes: 0

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose. Votes: 0

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not. Votes: 0

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long. Votes: 0

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. Votes: 0

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize. Votes: 0

The struggles and challenges that come before winning any tangible prize are the things that make it very valuable. Votes: 0

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. Votes: 0

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal. Votes: 0

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. Votes: 0

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold. Votes: 0

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. Votes: 0

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Votes: 0

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. Votes: 0

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise. Votes: 0

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love. Votes: 0

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours. Votes: 0

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize. Votes: 0

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price Votes: 0

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Votes: 0

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails. Votes: 0

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. Votes: 0

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. Votes: 0

You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap. Votes: 0

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment Votes: 0

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. Votes: 0

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won Votes: 0

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective. Votes: 0

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? Votes: 0

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands. Votes: 0

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick. Votes: 0

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured. Votes: 0

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. Votes: 0

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God Votes: 0

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. Votes: 0

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end. Votes: 0

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured Votes: 0

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Votes: 0

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. Votes: 0

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. Votes: 0

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize. Votes: 0

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring. Votes: 0

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. Votes: 0

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed. Votes: 0

When you eyes is fixed on the prize or reward.It gives you hope to stay focus until the vision is fulfilled. Votes: 0

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. Votes: 0

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. Votes: 0

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth. Votes: 0

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment. Votes: 0

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. Votes: 0

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. Votes: 0

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common ؛ I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence Votes: 0

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU Votes: 0

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. Votes: 0

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. Votes: 0

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common ؛ I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence Votes: 0

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle. Votes: 0

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore. Votes: 0

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible. Votes: 0

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year. Votes: 0

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold. Votes: 0

May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith... Votes: 0

No matter what ever happens in your life...always keep your eyes on the prize, It will help get you through every storm," Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. Votes: 0

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. Votes: 0

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech. Votes: 0

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! Votes: 0

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? Votes: 0

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children. Votes: 0

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should. Votes: 0

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders. Votes: 0

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. Votes: 0

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. Votes: 0

Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi Votes: 0

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. Votes: 0

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library. Votes: 0

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. Votes: 0

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 0

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 0

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top, Votes: 0

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. Votes: 0

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now. Votes: 0

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling. Votes: 0

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism. Votes: 0

Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only. Votes: 0

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize. Votes: 0

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. Votes: 0

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island. Votes: 0

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness. Votes: 0

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers. Votes: 0

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. Votes: 0

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle? Votes: 0

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee. Votes: 0

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains. Votes: 0

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer"”I am merely a word criminal. Votes: 0

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday. Votes: 0

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize. Votes: 0

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone. Votes: 0

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still. Votes: 0

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions. Votes: 0

Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25. Votes: 0

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. Votes: 0

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client. Votes: 0

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted. Votes: 0

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes. Votes: 0

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.' Votes: 0

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use? Votes: 0

We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize. Votes: 0

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. Votes: 0

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0