Prize Quotes

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

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.'

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

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.

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.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.