Quotes of: Prize Keyword

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

Angelica Hopes

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price

Bernard Kelvin Clive

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

Wole Soyinka

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.

The Countess Conspiracy

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

The First Salute

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

Spoon River Anthology

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

Oh my, you big stud, your dancing boobs have enchanted me with your hypnotic sexual magnitudeness.

Prize Package

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

Think and Grow Rich

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

Jane Gardam

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Naguib Mahfouz

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Nathan Myhrvold

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Orrin Woodward

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

Patricia Highsmith

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ ( , June 10, 1996)]

Robert Hughes

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Stephen Hawking

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Stanley B. Prusiner

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz