Nobel Acceptance Speech Quotes

#1. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.

Balroop Singh

#2. Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Jose Saramago

#3. I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

Martin Henderson

#4. The literature [Nobel] laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.
A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted.

Sune Bergstrom

#5. In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Margaret Atwood

#6. I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Pete Townshend

#7. The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

Laura Gilpin

#9. We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering....

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986

Edward Iwata

#10. A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Stephen J. Cannell

#11. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]

John Steinbeck

#12. Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Ben Aaronovitch

#13. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Alexander Pope

#14. The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

Ja'far Al-Sadiq

#15. One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door.

John H. Van Vleck

#16. Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson