Quotes About Prize Giving

#1. If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

John Banville

#2. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#4. I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

Maggie Nelson

#5. Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

Nikolai Gogol

#6. Beliavsky told me that, when he scolded Misha for giving to the Sports Committee almost all of his prize of several thousand dollars for winning the World Blitz Championship in Saint John, Misha simply replied: 'Well, they asked me for it and I gave it to them.

Genna Sosonko

#7. Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Jay Samit

#8. Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Cesare Pavese

#9. My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Quentin Tarantino

#10. The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

Robert Henri

#11. Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

Ellen DeGeneres

#12. I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.

Pankaj Mishra

#13. It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

Francis Quarles

#15. Love and hate were complete opposites; and yet they intersected so frequently, changing paths often until they collided and made one big mess as they became parallel and found peace within.

Nashoda Rose

#16. I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

Farooq Abdullah

#17. One who believes may not be presumptuous; on the contrary, truth leads to humility, because believers know that, rather than ourselves possessing truth, it is truth that embraces and possesses us.

Pope Francis

#18. And maybe, just maybe, it didn't matter hw you looked going into battle. It just mattered that you went.

Danielle Paige

#19. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.

Alexander Pope

#20. I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

Tim Pawlenty

#21. Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Joaquin Miller

#23. Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Quentin Blake

#24. Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Charles Alexander Eastman

#25. In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

Hiro Fujiwara

#26. Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

Dennis Garvin

#27. Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#28. Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area.

Wolfgang Ketterle