Prizes Quotes

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

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.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

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

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.