Prize Quotes - Page 4

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  Eddie Van Halen

  Beach, Crazy, Kids

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

  Michael Haneke

  Awards, Important, Directors

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• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, Tunes

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doors, Land

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gains, Rapture

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Nobel, Persecution, Ifs

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• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Wife, Literature, Nobel

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• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Literature, Language, Nobel

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• As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Humble, Honor, Proud

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• I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

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

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• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Race, Needs

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• I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Solitude, Company

  "Saul Bellow: Letters".

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• Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

  Chris Claremont

  Adventure, Life Is, Ultimate

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• Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Victory, Important

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Wise, Ignorance, Dark

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• I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

  Kristin Hannah

  Crumbling, Crackers, Boxes

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• You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Alexander Chalmers, Henry Fuseli (1805). “Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”, p.191

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• They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  George Gordon Byron, “Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness”

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• The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Princess, Writing

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• I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.

  Tom Robbins

  Fashion, Believe, Men

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Class, Tennis

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn't help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, "He's an expert." On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer's block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns to be prize worthy.

  Clarence Page

  Block, Mean, Winning

  "Clarence Page: The 'Culture Worrier' interview". Interview with Kam Williams, baystatebanner.com. March 12, 2015.

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• For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Virtue, Lost

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

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• Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we will make mistakes at times, that we will stumble, that we will become discouraged and perhaps even wish to give up and say to ourselves it is not worth the struggle. We know it is worth the effort, for the prize, which is eternal life, is “the greatest of all the gifts of God.” And to qualify, we must take one step after another and keep going to gain the spiritual heights we aspire to reach.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Father

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