Pulitzer Quotes: top 56 famous quotes about Pulitzer

Pulitzer Quotes & Sayings

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I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. — Lilly Pulitzer

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking. — Lilly Pulitzer

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

And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer. — Donald Hall

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring. — Lilly Pulitzer

Warming up for the Brewers is that lefthander they got from the Mets, Bill Pulitzer. — Mike Shannon

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. — Rita Dove

The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 — J.M. Carlisle

I can't put into words what I think about anything. — Lilly Pulitzer

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be. — Joseph Pulitzer

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis. — Lilly Pulitzer

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us. — Stephen Sondheim

Being happy never goes out of style. — Lilly Pulitzer

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life — Lilly Pulitzer

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way. — Lilly Pulitzer

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

Life's a party, dress like it. — Lilly Pulitzer

That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight. — Lilly Pulitzer

Not always sunny, but always in a sunny state of mind — Lilly Pulitzer

I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged. — Steve Breen

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano

Time means nothing to me. — Lilly Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment. — Gene Weingarten

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name. — Eddie Adams

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. — Annie Dillard

I am a believer that color affects people's moods. — Lilly Pulitzer

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

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close. — Suzan-Lori Parks

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option. — Arthur M. Jolly

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career. — Lilly Pulitzer

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock

The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour. — Lilly Pulitzer

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee. — Joseph Pulitzer

This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands.
Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical — Dave Barry

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company. — Harlan Coben

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. — John Corigliano

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. — Joseph Pulitzer

Wear pink and make the boys wink. — Lilly Pulitzer

What you could be. — Anthony Doerr

Newspapers should have no friends. — Joseph Pulitzer

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring. — Lilly Pulitzer

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

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. — Ian McEwan

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live. — Lilly Pulitzer

We focus on the best, fun, and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style, — Lilly Pulitzer

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men. — Joseph Pulitzer

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. — John Sandford

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. — Joseph Pulitzer

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

Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting. — Steven Wright

It's always summer somewhere. — Lilly Pulitzer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. — Robert Scheer

Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink. — Lilly Pulitzer