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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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.
I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.
In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.
I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
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.
The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.
The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.
I believe that when Fifa hands out an award, it should not be a marketing prize that solely honours the protagonists of a media-crazy sport.
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.
[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
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!
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.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.
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.
