Prize Quotes

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. View quote
Norman Mailer
... you are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed. (Christopher A. Sims)
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. View quote
Robert Hughes
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. View quote
Glenn Beck
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. View quote
Tom Lehrer
Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize. View quote
Richard Feynman
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle. View quote
James Russell Lowell
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that; I prize above my dukedom. View quote
William Shakespeare
Take our politicians they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. View quote
Saul Bellow
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah Attempted murder Now honestly, what is that Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry Do they. View quote
Matt Groening
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette. (Aubrey de Grey)
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. View quote
Friedrich Hayek