I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word ‘dude.’ ‘Dude, these are isotopes.’ ‘Dude, we removed your kidney. You’re gonna be fine.’ ‘Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.’
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.
For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy… delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.
I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That’s why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
It’s always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you’re glad when you get it.
In one way or another, President Obama’s critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
It’s a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
If you tell someone, ‘Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,’ it makes it less likely. If you say, ‘Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,’ it could make it more likely.
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies – which is part guilt and part warmth – and the Booker Prize isn’t an essential part of that, but it is part of that.
I’m just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: ‘Your eye’s on the prize, your eye’s on the future. It’s nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That’s great, but the work is really what makes it fun – and that has to be the future.’
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain’s Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn’t have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks… but not in my area.
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.
President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.’ It is hard to imagine anyone other than Mr. Trump expressing that sentiment.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it’s a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham’s ‘Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.’ To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester’s works and the little urn that contains my mother’s ashes.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world’s publishing industry to jump to their tune.
The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn’t sunk in.
With ‘Poison,’ I’m sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.
The two don’t necessarily translate, especially if you’re a prize fighter: you’ve fought all your life, you’ve fought all these fights, and now you’re trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot – a lot of professional fighters don’t necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
I’m very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
Without a doubt, winning the World Cup is the highest prize in football. It’s the peak – the maximum that you can reach.
Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt – they just fall off. I’m not one of those guys. The belt isn’t my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
I’ve had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize – yours, not anybody else’s.
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
The great ‘New York Times’ columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child’s race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
I have received the greatest honor in my life – and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It’s worth $400,000.
MMA has a referee, and you’re wearing gloves. I’m in there with another volunteering participant that’s out there to win some prize money.
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
I became president of the players’ association and was willing to have conversations with influential people about equal prize money or how the tour could be promoted and structured in a way to make women’s tennis better.
My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
I don’t really like the Oscars; it’s a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it’s hardly the Nobel prize.
As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
