Prize Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

  Teresa of Avila

  Daughter, Journey, Greatness

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

  John Barth

  Simple, Soul, Deeds

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• Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

  John Lahr

  Discovery, Games, Play

  "The Human Circus" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2010.

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• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Crazy, People, Would Be

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Feelings, Literature, Levels

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• If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

  Kathy Lette

  Invention, Nobel, Inventor

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

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• In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Writing, School, Tuberculosis

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• I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

  Arthur Keith

  Opportunity, Matter, Authority

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

  Howard Gardner

  Luck, Degrees, World

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

  James Payn

  Hands, Literature, Competence

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Acquisition, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

  William Ralph Inge

  Struggle, Games, Life Is

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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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• Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

  Saul Bellow

  Self, Hands, Civilization

  Saul Bellow (2003). “Novels, 1944-1953”

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• Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

  Marcus Buckingham

  School, Self, Parent

  "The Monday Interview: Marcus Buckingham, Author of The Truth About You". Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. September 15, 2008.

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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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• In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks don’t fly from the beginning, they never will. If he doesn’t get your sense of humor from the first conversation, you’ll always secretly be looking for someone who does. And if a guy can’t see restaurant servers as real people, with needs and dreams and crappy jobs, then I don’t want to be with him, even if he just won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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