Prize famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.
-- Andrew Harvey -
I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
-- Bill McCartney -
Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.
-- Chris Claremont -
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
-- E. B. White -
the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
-- Henry James -
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
-- Henry Mitchell -
Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.
-- Janet Frame -
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
-- Joe Klein -
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
-- John Muir -
We like the gift when we the giver prize.
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby -
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
-- Jonathan Raymond -
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
-- Kailash Satyarthi -
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
-- Klaus Kinski -
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
-- Lewis Carroll -
I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
-- Norman Jewison -
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
-- P. T. Barnum -
You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
-- Phil Ochs -
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
-- Philip Warren Anderson -
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
-- Philip Warren Anderson -
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein -
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
-- Plato -
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini -
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
-- Robert Hughes -
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
-- Robert Scheer -
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
-- Sam Nunn -
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
-- Steve Toltz -
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.
-- Thomas Brooks -
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
-- Tracy Austin -
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
-- William Shenstone -
I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.
-- Erro -
Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.
-- Judith Rich Harris -
I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.
-- Lewis Schiff -
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.
-- Maria Teresa Horta -
One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.
-- Robert Dessaix -
A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.
-- Leanna Renee Hieber