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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry

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. — Portia De Rossi

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize. — Rodney Dangerfield

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

He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize. — Mohammed Hanif

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! — Joseph Hopkinson

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

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize. — Sonya Hartnett

My vagina claps her pretty lips, and my magic marble lights up like we've won the million-dollar prize. — Helena Hunting

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes

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. — Sinclair Lewis

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

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

SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZE
ACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER
P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER
AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME — S.A. David

It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously. — Kate Atkinson

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won. — Brian Tracy

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

Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead. — David Mamet

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

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them. — Sarah Dessen

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? — Thomas Jefferson

I am sorry, but it took me months of courting to get him. He is a prize to be won and mine to use as I see fit. — K.A. Merikan

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

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. — David Mamet

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. — Donald Hall

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. — Constance Baker Motley

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

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne

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

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

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