Top 1116 Prize Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.
I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.
I don't have any clue about the criteria, how the Nobel committee selects an individual for the prize.
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
Without a doubt, winning the World Cup is the highest prize in football. It's the peak - the maximum that you can reach.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.
The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.
Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.
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?
I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.
Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.
To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
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.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.
A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold.
