Quotes of: Prized Keyword

When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Teddy Roosevelt

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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 ...

Saul Perlmutter

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.

Willard Libby

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

Fantasia Barrino

No matter how strong the winds of trials and tribulations blow, never take your sight off from the prize ahead.

Edmond Mbiaka,

Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.

Edmond Mbiaka

If you could clearly envision the reality of the prize ahead, then only you could prevent yourself from proclaiming it.

Edmond Mbiaka

Every dream has a price for its prize. I hope you are willing to pay for yours?

Edmond Mbiaka

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Bill Keller

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

Cate Blanchett

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

John O'Keefe

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

Doris Lessing

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Ernest Renan

You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

John Irving