Top 312 Prizes Quotes & Sayings

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

As a player, you always want to win prizes.

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone's opinion, the right books don't get chosen. Still we need books to be chosen even if they are not exactly the right ones, otherwise many people won't know what to read. As a publisher, I feel prizes are important for the publishing business. But as a writer, I think, writers shouldn't get too distracted by prizes because very often they don't go to the right person. You shouldn't take it too seriously if you haven't won a prize.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

There are no prizes for average performance.

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Those who act receive the prizes.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer.

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

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.

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

Incentive prizes work.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

Do not seek prizes that aren't worth getting.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.