Prize Quotes - Page 26

• Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2017). “The Origin of Others”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Believe, People

  "History and the Decline of Human Violence". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. October 4, 2011.

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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

  Carol Kent

  Christian, Growth, Surprise

  Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? - because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Vegetarianism, Needs

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sage, Literature, Occupation

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Winning, Doubt, Dirt

  "Jairam Ramesh's legacy is an Indian environment ministry with an identity", www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

  Andy Partridge

  Love You, Pounds, May

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• The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “Vanity Fair, etc”, p.567

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• I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Love, Song, Queens

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Morning Star”, p.295, The Floating Press

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• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

  George Wald

  Peace, Grateful, Heart

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• Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Space, People, Important

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• A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Men, Differences, Stronger

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• The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  America, Leader, Balance

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• I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

  Henry Mitchell

  Achievement, Needs, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Giants, Arms

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• A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

  Stephen Birmingham

  New York, Cities, People

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Guitar, Lovely, Littles

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• To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

  Thomas Traherne

  Moving, Eye, Journey

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• The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

  John Banville

  Book, Way, Should

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