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Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area. — Wolfgang Ketterle

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

You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden. — Andrew Smith

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU — Martin Schulz

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer — Naguib Mahfouz

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. — Saul Perlmutter

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. — Tom Bethell

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. — Billy Boyd

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. — Christopher A. Sims

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

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

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw

I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize. — Klaus Von Klitzing

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

Science has eliminated distance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam

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. — Binyavanga Wainaina

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

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

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. — Philip Warren Anderson

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

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. — Najib Razak

You should always use your Nobel prize money to buy property. — John Kendrew

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

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

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. — Barry Marshall

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. — P. J. O'Rourke

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. — Christopher Hitchens

If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother — E. Mavis Hetherington

Be the change which you want to happen to the world — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. — Wole Soyinka

We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering....

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986 — Edward Iwata

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. — Evel Knievel

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. — Tim Hunt

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

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.' — Conan O'Brien

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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. — Steven Wright

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

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates

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

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

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. — Bill Maher

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. — Aubrey De Grey

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively. — Ivar Giaever

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. — Rigoberta Menchu

I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize. — Kurt Vonnegut

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. — Frederick Banting

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

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music — Amit Ray

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. — Jane McGonigal

The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I? — Patrick Modiano

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate. — James Rothman

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. — Tom Lehrer

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. — Luis Walter Alvarez

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. — Ron Paul

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize. — Bruce Beutler

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize. — Tim Hunt

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

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics. — Clive Granger

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy

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. — Richard Gere

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. — Joshua Lederberg

Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy. — Amit Ray

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. — Allan Snyder

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. — Michael O'Leary

Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke. — Sophie Kinsella

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations. — Curtis Sittenfeld

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion

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. — Doris Lessing

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. — Mother Teresa

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist. — Charles Glover Barkla

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. — Carl Forti

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. — Betty Dodson

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

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

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. — Barry Marshall

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. — Naguib Mahfouz

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. — Richard P. Feynman

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. — James Heckman

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

At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. — James D. Watson

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status. — Luis Federico Leloir

I am an atheist. — Hans Bethe

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. — Jose Saramago

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors. — Richard Feynman

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. — Jay Leno