Hult Prize Quotes

#1. She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. Taking the sweatshirt, he raised it to his face and sniffed the bloodstains left on it.

Tim O'Rourke

#3. Of the three, the third trait - the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment - is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Anna Funder

#5. Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Christopher Morley

#6. I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

#7. I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Gillian Jacobs

#8. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Valery

#9. Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Jeremy Grantham

#10. I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

Arin Paul

#11. People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

Susan Lucci

#12. I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

George W. Bush

#13. This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things ... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

Spotted Tail

#14. The best advice is found on the pillow', he

Francois Lelord

#15. The noble must make humility his root.

Laozi