Nobel Quotes - Page 12

• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Essence

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

  George H. W. Bush

  Friendship, Thinking, Years

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway station?" asks the stranger. "Certainly," says the local, pointing in the opposite direction, towards the post office, "and would you post this letter for me on your way?" "Certainly," says the stranger, resolving to open it to see if it contains anything worth stealing.

  Linda McQuaig

  Winning, Opposites, Office

  Linda McQuaig (2001). “All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism”, Viking

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• 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

  Book, Understanding, Literature

  "Faulkner Without Fanfare". Esquire Magazine, July 1963.

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• I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world.

  Juan Somavia

  Team, Thinking, Organization

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• Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.

  Denys Johnson-Davies

  Writing, Years, Fiction

  "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

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• It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

  Orhan Pamuk

  Relief, Ask Me, Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Differences, Reputation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Bills, Telephones

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• I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Should Have, Economics, Prize

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1974.

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• I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  People, Age, Use

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Mistake, Thinking, Predictions

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Lasts, Six, Twenties

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.

  Lewis Schiff

  New York, School, America

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

  John Medina

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

  Catherine Camus

  Writing, Artist, Influence

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Commitment, Years, Political

  Source: progressive.org

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• Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Hair, Optimism, Worry

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Political, President, Roles

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Men, Strange Man, Wonderful

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People."
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  Stephen Dobyns

  Independent, People, Winner

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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