Prize Quotes - Page 31

• George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

  Joe Klein

  Nobel, Deserve

  "More Neo-Nonsense". swampland.time.com. July 30, 2008.

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• The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Autumn lunch of the London Institute of Petroleum, 1999.

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• I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Two, Degrees

  Interview with Spencer Michels in "The NewsHour" on PBS, May 2, 2007.

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• I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"

  Steven Chu

  Mother, Morning, Nice

  "The Science Guy". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2009.

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• People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

  Aaron Klug

  People, Sometimes, Nobel

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.

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• Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Rewards, Listeners

  "Mustadrak al-Wasāʼil wa-mustanbaṭ al-masāʼil". Book by Ḥusayn Taqī al-Nūrī Ṭabarsī, Volume 4,

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• The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

  Theodore Parker

  Home, Honest, Labor

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.79

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• The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

  Lionel Trilling

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Book, Republican

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• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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• The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Thatcher's speech in Perth, Scotland (May 13, 1983), as quoted in "British Vote Campaign Gets Off to Angry Start" in New York Times, May 14, 1983.

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• Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

  Stephen King

  Life, Real, Games

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• Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.

  Michael Nesmith

  Self, Research, Littles

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• The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Weed, Flower, Feet

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• Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.323

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Climbing, Wind

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge

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• Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

  Stephen Colbert

  Winning, Thinking, President

  "A Mock Columnist, Amok" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

  Gao Xingjian

  Country, Book, Chinese

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• The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

  Charles Saatchi

  Years, Today, Lasts

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

  Marcel Carne

  Art, Japan, Important

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• All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

  Kate Mosse

  Running, Integrity, Reading

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• Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

  Kate Mosse

  People, Would Be, Type

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• I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

  Amelie Nothomb

  President, Amelie, Winner

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• There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

  Keith O'Brien

  Doubt, Influence, Institutions

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