Prize Quotes - Page 3

• Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Dream, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Body, Weapons, Crackers

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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• Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Race, Class, Firsts

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Life, Children, Native American

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• Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

  David Baldacci

  Running, Appreciation, Writing

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• She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

  Leonora Carrington

  Giving, Competition, Wonderful

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• Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.

  Janet Evanovich

  Corn, Junk, Nutrition

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Believe, Teaching

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• When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

  John Gay

  Powerful, Sea, Fishing

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

  Pete Sampras

  Heart, Winning, Blood

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• Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

  James McBride

  Heart, Remembrance, Promise

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• Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

  Matthew Henry

  Jesus, Fall, Heart

  "A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi".

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• When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Thinking, Awards

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Gratitude, Men, Indulge In

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Brilliants”

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• There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

  Emma Donoghue

  Men, Fiction, May

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

  W. C. Fields

  Two, Philadelphia, Firsts

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• Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.

  Laura Benanti

  Wall, Eye, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

  Michel Ocelot

  Festivals, Film, Sincere

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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