Prize Quotes

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.

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.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

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.

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.

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'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace 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.

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

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

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.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

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

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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 roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.