Prize Quotes

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

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.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.