Prize Quotes

He gives Himself as prize and reward: He is the refreshment of holy soul, the ransom of those in captivity. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

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

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray

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

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

The vote has been costly. Prize it ... understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope

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

Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories — Joseph Dunn

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. — Philip Warren Anderson

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't. — Barry Lyga

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

Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize; — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

-There is no victory without a war, no prize without a price, no crown without a cross — Ikechukwu Joseph

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

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. — Pope Francis

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. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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! — Friedrich Schiller

The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you. — Enock Maregesi

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

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex. — R. J. Anderson

The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society. — M.C. Mary Kom

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

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

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Keep your heart in the game and your eyes on the prize. — Nathania Gutierrez

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

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal

Keep calm in the midst of the storms of life. Stay focus on the ultimate prize. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. — Saul Alinsky

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. — Jerry Lawler

( ... ) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom's school. — Sophocles

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead. — Drew Karpyshyn

Pulitzer is a word but accomplishment is an aura. — Chila Woychik

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

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

SALLY Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye. — Nora Ephron

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior. — Joe Abercrombie

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

Give her to me."
Turning away with his prize, Lock shook his head. "No. Get your own cat."
"She's my sister. — Shelly Laurenston

[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. — Bernice Rubens

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

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 — Maria Sharapova

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls

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

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. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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? — Sarah Dessen

Take a risk, take a prize. — Carrie Fisher

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 am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured. — Kailash Satyarthi

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

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize. — Frank Pittman

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

First, I'm going to teach you how to Irish Whip someone."
"Oh, that sounds kinky. I want my safeword to be peaches," I said, grinning. — Kyle Adams

The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you're only showing that you're unworthy of it. — M.R. Carey

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

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

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment. — Lorna Jackie Wilson

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

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. — Kate Adie

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. — Dick Van Patten

She needs to decide if it's me she wants. I sure as hell won't be the consolation prize. — Corinne Michaels

I've learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache. — Chila Woychik

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

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

Hush, little baby, don't you cry Daddy fixes all things by and by. Cease your striving, rest your eyes You're my joy and you're my prize. — Beth Moore

I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can win a baby monkey as a door prize. — Carol Maloney Scott

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

The prize of all too precious you. — William Shakespeare

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

I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body. — Dorothy Dunnett

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

We like the gift when we the giver prize. — John Sheffield, 1st Duke Of Buckingham And Normanby

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

No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. — Marcus Garvey

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

This could be the biggest mistake of my life. Or it could be the most perfect prize. One you've earned. — Belle Aurora

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

No matter what ever happens in your life ... always keep your eyes on the prize, It will help get you through every storm, — Timothy Pina

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price — Bernard Kelvin Clive

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James

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

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

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

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. — Bill Walsh

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry. — George R R Martin

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. — Carol Kent

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller