Prize Quotes - Page 18

• As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.

  Iris Smyles

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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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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• There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was filled with misrepresentations about the amount of ice the poor polar bears have to live on, doctored photos. He said in his acceptance speech in 2007, getting a Nobel Peace Prize, that the North Pole would be ice free by 2013. Today the truth is, there is a record amount of arctic ice for this time of year. He couldn't have been more wrong.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Acceptance, Done, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do - excuse me - you can never compete with her. You can win the Nobel Peace Prize and you can't compete with Kim Lard-ashian's ass.

  Judy Tenuta

  Sorry, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Winning, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In my case, it felt really nice that a certain type of readership read the book and liked it, even though my readership is not as wide as certain popular books.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Nice, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Morning, Nice, Winning

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Thinking, Winning, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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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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• If we offer a prize, so to speak, to anyone who manages to bring a country under his physical control - namely, that they can then sell the country's resources and borrow in its name - then it's not surprising that generals or guerrilla movements will want to compete for this prize. But that the prize is there is really not the fault of the insiders. It is the fault of the dominant states and of the system of international law they maintain.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Law, Names

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along the lines of, "The more one travels, the more intelligent one becomes," however, I think that you can still travel a lot and remain sheltered.

  Isa Genzken

  Believe, Artist, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Winning, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living. My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Dream, Art, Drinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 wasn't particularly prolific at sport, and I could get by at school, but I wasn't going to win any prizes. Suddenly people were slapping me on the back and saying that I was funny and talented. So I just knew that it felt good to be appreciated, basically. Whenever I got an opportunity to do some acting I did a little bit more.

  Henry Lloyd-Hughes

  Sports, School, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for us to be protected, we had to make sure that we had our partner on our side. We were put in a position where our vulnerability was a life and death scenario. And we were taken advantage of, and we were put in a certain place that we had never been put in before.

  Kate Hudson

  Taken, Men, Life And Death

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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