Quotes About Recognition

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.

I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

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

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

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

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.