Prizes Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

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

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.

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.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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

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