Nobel Prize For Literature Quotes

#1. Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Tom Bethell

#3. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

David Eddings

#5. On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

Patrick Modiano

#6. Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

Stephen Colbert

#7. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment

Patrick Modiano

#8. To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

Barry Marshall

#9. Spontaneous evil has its way, when the soul is fast asleep in the safety of regular moments.

Brian Krogstad

#10. I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it ...

Rob Bell

#11. Science has eliminated distance.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. 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.

Naguib Mahfouz

#13. The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

Aaron Ciechanover

#14. It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !

Arno Schmidt

#15. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

#16. If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

Christopher Buckley

#17. I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

Rand Paul

#18. The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?

Patrick Modiano

#19. Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

Joyce Rachelle

#20. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Naguib Mahfouz

#21. I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#22. George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ... Literature"

Robert Kuttner

#23. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.

Beryl Dov

#24. He saw firsthand the way that the Disney people took advantage of the open floor plan, sharing information and brainstorming. Steve was a big believer in the power of accidental mingling; he knew that creativity was not a solitary endeavor.

Ed Catmull

#25. It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

William Faulkner

#26. Crisis sells well.

Umberto Eco

#27. No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

Tom O'Connor