Prize Quotes - Page 22

• You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

  Emo Philips

  Children, Wife, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Awards, Sweden

  Milton Friedman's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1976.

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• If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Easy, Feels, Elusive

  Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Century, Passages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

  Robert Scheer

  Paper

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• I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rick Atkinson

  Home, Iraq, Office

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• 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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• Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.

  Avicii

  Love Is, Games, And Love

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• The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, People, Purity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1126, Macmillan

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• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

  Steve Toltz

  Arbitrary

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• Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Consolation, Consolation Prize

  "Q&A | Portland author Jon Raymond". Interview with Michael Upchurch, www.seattletimes.com. January 14, 2009.

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Independent, Data, Nobel

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• To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Vices, Done, Duty

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v”

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• Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Fighting, Exercise, Boys

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

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• It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.76

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• The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

  Plato

  Victory, Runners

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing

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• At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Editors, Naked

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• My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

  Martin Amis

  Father, Doubt, Announcements

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Struggle, Winning

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• I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.

  Angelina Grimke

  Character, Lovely, Males

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• It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else;  a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile.  Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Leadership, Struggle

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.

  Fanny Burney

  Hurt, Horse, Writing

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