Prize Quotes - Page 17

• If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

  Aubrey de Grey

  People, Looks, Winner

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Prize Money, Careers, Tennis

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• It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

  William Saroyan

  Book, World, Opinion

  William Saroyan, James H. Tashjian (1983). “My name is Saroyan”, Coward Mc Cann

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• It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

  Douglas Adams

  Smart, Science, Lynching

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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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 was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Baby, Arkansas, Newspapers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.

  Jan Gustafsson

  Silly, Moving, Sacrifice

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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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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Book, Fighting

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Gratitude, Men, Indulge In

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Brilliants”

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• First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

  W. C. Fields

  Two, Philadelphia, Firsts

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• The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Littles, Professional Life

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• Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky three more times. It is astounding to see how many writers published in the anthology have gone on to publish great story collections and novels. The anthology is a windfall for both writer and reader.

  David Bergen

  Journey, Lucky, Three

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• Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

  James McBride

  Heart, Remembrance, Promise

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• Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

  Matthew Henry

  Jesus, Fall, Heart

  "A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi".

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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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• Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

  Janet Frame

  Life Is, Hell

  Janet Frame (1963). “The reservoir: stories and sketches”

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• Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

  Saul Perlmutter

  Nobel, Nobel Prize

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• It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community

  Saul Perlmutter

  Fun, Opportunity, People

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• Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

  Henry James

  Delicate, Pursue, Generous

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Jay Leno

  War, Fighting, President

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• While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

  Gideon Rachman

  Children, School, Kids

  "What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. October 9, 2009.

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