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Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.
— Lina Wertmuller
I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.
— Glen Duncan
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings ... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
— Stephen Birmingham
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
— Sylvia Plath
I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.
— Philippe Falardeau
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
— Gerald R. Ford
But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.
— Umberto Eco
WE WIN FABULOUS PRIZES
— Rick Riordan
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
— Ree Drummond
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
— Nick Harkaway
Parts win prizes, not actors.
— Alan Rickman
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
— Patricia Highsmith
I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.
— Luciano Vincenzoni
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
— Brian Tracy
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
— E. Franklin Frazier
Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.
— Maria Montessori
Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.
— Matt Groening
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
— Doris Lessing
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
— James Cook
George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick
prizes would fall out of him. — Argus Hamilton
prizes would fall out of him. — Argus Hamilton
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
— Herbert A. Simon
A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.
— Stephen Hawking
The time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
— Renata Adler
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],
— Kristin Hannah
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
— Hendrik Tennekes
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.
— Richard Flanagan
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
— David Malouf
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
— William Feather
Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255
— Susan Howatch
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
— Wole Soyinka
Bible, and so the delivery of one of these prizes was a rare and noteworthy circumstance;
— Mark Twain
Matthew Watkins: I need an afternoon pick-me-up. I accept cash and/or prizes that can be exchanged for cash. Also, hobbits.
— Jessica Park
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
— William Feather
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
— Emma Donoghue
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.
— Thomas Brooks
There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.
— Michele Bachmann
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
— Bob Woodward
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
— Robert Robinson
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
— Herbert Simon
Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.
— Stephen King
Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.
— Sarah Winman
I don't value prizes of any sort.
— David Hockney
I was never much of a one to win prizes ... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
— Annie Lennox
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
— Arabella Weir
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
— Lionel Shriver
As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think, the least of the consolation prizes is the world.
— Saul Bellow
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
— Richard Flanagan
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
— Ann Aguirre
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
— Oswald Chambers
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins
Create an organization that prizes the development of ability - and watch the leaders emerge.
— Carol S. Dweck
Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes
— Vicki Alayne Bradley
Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.
— Andy Andrews
Life is hell, but there are prizes.
— Janet Frame
Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
— Georges Duhamel
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
— Jacob Bronowski
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
— Henry Mitchell
I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.
— Lizzie K. Foley
Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.
— Richard Flanagan
Antimacassars and pot holders. There were games with prizes
— William Kent Krueger
What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?
— Margaret Atwood
This miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
— Walker Percy
Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
— F. E. Smith
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
— Jerome K. Jerome
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
— Katharine Hepburn
Those who act receive the prizes.
— Aristotle.
He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes."
"He's always taking something - generally food. — P.G. Wodehouse
"He's always taking something - generally food. — P.G. Wodehouse
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
— Richard Flanagan
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
— Lewis Carroll
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
— John F. Kennedy
I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
— Val McDermid
In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them.
— Michael Sadleir