Prizes Quotes

I don't value prizes of any sort.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.