Prize Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

  Robert Dessaix

  Want, Ifs

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• You can't praise what you don't prize.

  John Piper

  Praise

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.

  Bryan Bertino

  Girl, Hero, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Awards

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• In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

  Bobby Rahal

  Sports, Prize Money, Average

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• Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

  Lord Byron

  Desire, Cost, Lessons

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  Colin Wilson

  Literature, Outsiders, Conflict

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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• I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

  Michel Ocelot

  World, May, Cinema

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Firsts, Remember, Englishmen

  In Peter Ustinov 'Dear Me' (1977) ch. 4

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• Parts win prizes, not actors.

  Alan Rickman

  Winning, Actors

  "Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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• Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

  Euripides

  Humility, Son, Men

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Regret, Awards

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Winning, Thinking, President

  "A Mock Columnist, Amok" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Winning, Names

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• The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it’s the process of reaching for that prize — not the prize itself — that can bring us peace and joy.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Lying, Focus

  FaceBook post by Scott Jurek from Sep 07, 2012

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• I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

  Robert Osborne

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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

  David Eddings

  Literature, Danger, Nobel

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

  Martin Schulz

  Hate, War, Unique

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2012

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• Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

  Marcel Proust

  Honor, Causes, Position

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

  Gore Vidal

  Politician, Believer, Improvisation

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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