Quotes of: Prized Keyword

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Peter Agre

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Glenn Beck

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Keith O'Brien

Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Stanford Moore

Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905, and Einstein has another paper in the very same journal where it appeared - his other paper was the one that formulated t...

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics.

The Encyclopedia of Unbelief, 2 Vols

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

Path of Destruction

No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest.

Unlocking Closed Doors

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Naguib Mahfouz

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Phil Donahue

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Richard Flanagan

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Stephen Hawking

Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.

Debasish Mridha

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Mario Batali

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Dennis Banks

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

Ezra Taft Benson

I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.

Olga Kurylenko

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Annalena McAfee

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

James Rothman