Prizes Quotes

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

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

I don't value prizes of any sort.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.